As previously reported, on Thursday, November 25th, 2004 and on Friday, November 26th, 2004 the Exchange will be offering trading of only the Brent Crude Oil contract (SC) in open outcry on the Dublin trading floor. The following will address processing that will and will/not be performed during the holiday:
- The Brent/WTI spread will not be tradable on those days.
- NYMEX ACCESSsm will not be open on those days.
- The Exchange is not offering trading in any other markets.
- Brent Crude Oil trades will be processed in the normal manner on Thursday, November 25th and on Friday, November 26th.
- All pertinent trade files, SPAN files and Clearing Member Download Site reports will be made available at the normally scheduled times.
- Intra-day trade transmissions will be run in the normal fashion.
- TMS CM download functionality will be available.
- The Exchange will not perform any banking on Thursday, November 25th nor on Friday, November 26th.
- The Exchange will allow Clearing Members to perform adjustments for any commodity during the holiday.
- Open interest will be disseminated for NYMEX products only.
- Settlement prices for all contracts will be disseminated during the holiday. (The previous day's settlement price will be disseminated for those contracts that do not trade during the holiday.)
- The fact sheets will be created every day during the holiday.
- Position Change Statements (PCSs) will be accepted during the holiday.
- Large trader submission will be performed during the holiday days.
- Trade transfers will be performed manually for each day that the CMs were not able to perform transfers during the holiday days. Clearing Members can either ask the Clearing House to perform their transfers OR they can perform position transfers in lieu of trade transfers.
- Since Friday, November 26th is a PJM business day and a NYMEX processing day, PJM erosions will occur.
- MDR files will be transmitted in the normal fashion.
- The NYMEX.com corporate website will be updated daily with settlement prices, highs, lows and change values.
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