CME offices will be open on Tuesday, January 2, 2007, and CME markets will observe the national day of mourning for President Gerald Ford.  All CME equity and commodity markets will be closed all day; interest rate and foreign exchange markets will close early at 12:00 noon, Central Time on Tuesday.  CME offices will then be closed at 1:00 p.m.  All products trading on CME Globex® will reopen at their regularly scheduled time Tuesday, Jan. 2 for a trade date of Wednesday, Jan. 3. 

All CME Globex^® markets will open at 5:00 am, January 2, 2007, as previously scheduled. CME Globex equities will close at 8:15 am on Jan 2^nd.  while CME Globex foreign exchange and interest rates will close at 12:00 noon.

As a reminder, CME will be closed on Monday, January 1, 2007, in observance of New Year’s Day.

If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact:

Toni Partee                                        tpartee@cme.com              312.930.8288

Laura Sutor                                        lsutor@cme.com                312.648.5480