NYMEX Seventh Month Crude Oil TAS Launch - Effective Sunday, February 10, 2008

Effective Sunday, February 10, 2008 (trade date Monday, February 11), the seventh month of the Crude Oil TAS (Product Code: CLT) will be listed for trading on the CME Globex^® platform.  Months four through six will not be listed. CME Globex currently lists months one through three for the Crude Oil TAS.

Month seven (August 2008 maturity) will be listed initially with an expiration date in February and will be re-listed in June as the third contract month with a July expiration date.  When re-listed, it will retain the same Complete Instrument Code but will be assigned different CME Globex Internal Ids.

For additional information on the Complete Instrument Code and CME Globex Internal IDs, please see the RLC Message Specifications module of the legacy RLC market data SDK. 

This instrument will be available for customer testing in the New Release environment on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

For additional information on the NYMEX Crude Oil TAS contracts, please contact NYMEX Product Marketing at 212.299.2301.