CME Group Announces Expanded Agriculture, Ethanol Electronic Trading Hours
By admin - Posted on June 5th, 2009
CHICAGO, June 5 -- CME Group, a derivatives exchange, announced today that electronic trading hours for the CBOT grains, oilseeds and ethanol contracts will be expanded in the morning by one hour and fifteen minutes, until 7:15 a.m., beginning July 1.
The new electronic trading hours will run from 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 a.m. Chicago time Sunday through Friday for futures and options on futures for full and mini-size where offered corn, wheat, soybeans, soymeal, soyoil, rice, oats and ethanol contracts. Daytime electronic and open outcry hours will remain from 9:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. weekdays.
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in Chicago and New York. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."
Source: CME Group (:CME)
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