Market Data Advisory Notices
To Market Data Distributors
From Market Data Operations
Subject Extended Trading Hours for CME Commodity Contracts on CME Globex - Beginning Monday, June 4, 2007
Notice Date 2007-05-07
Notice Number Q2007-119
Effective Date 2007-06-04

Starting Monday, June 4, 2007, CME Commodity Futures and Options Contracts will trade virtually 24 hours a day on the CME Globex ® platform.  Agricultural contracts will open for trading at 9:05 a.m. Central Time (CT) Mondays and close at 1:30 p.m. CT Fridays, with a 60-minute trading halt each day for system maintenance and date roll, beginning at 4:00 p.m.

 

New Trading Hours are 9:05 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Monday; with the market reopening at 5:00 p.m. Monday (Tuesday’s trade date), Tuesday through Thursday 5:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Friday 5:00 (Thursday) until 1:30 p.m. CT.  Currently, CME Globex trading hours are side-by-side with open outcry on the CME Trading Floor.

 

Contracts include futures and options (where listed); they are:

  • Lean Hogs
  • Frozen Pork Bellies
  • Live Cattle
  • Feeder Cattle
  • Cash-settled Butter
  • Class III Milk
  • Dry Whey
  • Fertilizer