Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. Announces Date of First Quarter Earnings Announcement, Conference Call.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2003 Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures. Holdings Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). ) will announce earnings for the first quarter of 2003 before the financial markets open on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The company has scheduled an investor conference call that day at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time (7:30 a.m. Central time). A live audio Webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. section of the company's Web site. Following the conference call, an archived recording will be available at the same site. Those wishing to listen to the live call via telephone should dial (800) 475-3716 if calling from within the United States or (719) 457-2728 if calling from outside the United States at least 10 minutes before the call begins. In addition, the Webcast call will be distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). Also on April 22, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings will hold its 2003 annual meeting of shareholders. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. at the Westin Chicago River North Hotel, 320 N. Dearborn, Chicago. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. is the parent company of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com), the largest futures exchange Futures Exchange Traditionally, a term referring to a central marketplace where futures contracts and options on futures contracts are traded. More recently, with the growth in electronic trading, it is also used to describe the activity of futures trading itself. in the United States based on notional value Notional Value The total value of a leveraged position's assets. This term is commonly used in the options, futures and currency markets because in them a very little amount of invested money can control a large position (have a large consequence for the trader). , trading volume Trading volume The number of shares transacted every day. As there is a seller for every buyer, one can think of the trading volume as half of the number of shares transacted. That is, if A sells 100 shares to B, the volume is 100 shares. and open interest. On Dec. 6, 2002, CME Holdings and its subsidiary became the first publicly traded U.S. financial exchange. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX(R) around-the-clock electronic trading platform. CME offers futures contracts and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moves about $1.8 billion per day in settlement payments and manages $27.4 billion in collateral deposits. Further information about Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. is available on the CME Web site at www.cme.com. |
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