Market  Data Advisory Notices
To Market Data Distributors
From Market Data Operations
Subject Decommissioning of Market Data Platform Channel 20 - NYMEX Energy, Softs/COMEX Futures - Effective Friday, May 4, 2007
Notice Date 2007-03-26
Notice Number Q2007-081
Effective Date 2007-05-04

Effective at the close of business Friday, May 4, 2007, CME® will decommission Channel 20 on the Market Data Platform (MDP).  Channel 20 is currently used for transmission of  market data on NYMEX Energy, Softs and COMEX futures.

As detailed in Notice # Q2007 – 038, dated February 14, 2007, three new channels (channels 30, 31 and 32) have been commissioned and the products carried on Channel 20 will be reallocated to these new channels this Sunday, February 25, 2007, in the scheme displayed below:

 

Channel ID

Market Data Description

30

NYMEX Crude Futures

31

NYMEX Non-Crude Energy Futures

32

NYMEX Softs & COMEX Futures

 

Please note that market data on NYMEX Energy, Softs and COMEX futures will continue to be disseminated via Channel 20, until it is decommissioned on May 4, 2007.  Distributors are urged to begin utilizing transmissions from the new Channels 30, 31 and 32 as soon as possible.