CME Group Announces Columbus Day Holiday Hours and Settlement Procedures

CHICAGO, Oct. 7  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, will close its trading floors for Interest Rate and FX products in recognition of Columbus Day on Monday, Oct. 12, 2009.  Regular CME Globex trading hours will be in effect.

Given the bank holiday and trading floor closures on this day, special settlement procedures will be used for Interest Rate and FX products.  All details regarding holiday open outcry and electronic trading hours and settlement procedures can be found at: http://www.cmegroup.com/globex/files/holidaysettlements.pdf.

As the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com/) is where the world comes to manage risk.  CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.  CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago.  CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing services in the world, which provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®.  These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.

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