Top Electricity and Natural Gas Executives To Address Tumultuous Changes in Deregulated Markets at Platts' 8th Annual Day of the Trader Conference.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2001

FERC Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell to Deliver Keynote

Executives with some of the most dynamic companies in deregulated electricity and natural gas markets will address the 8th Annual Day of the Trader Conference, December 5-7 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV.

The conference is sponsored by Platts, the energy information, research, consulting and market services division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP).

Featured speakers include top officers from Duke Energy, Reliant Energy, Aquila, Williams Energy, Coral Energy, Calpine, Allegheny Energy Global Markets, PG&E, Southern California Gas, the New York Mercantile Exchange and others, along with the industry's top strategic analysts.

The conference also includes a panel that will take an in-depth look at how federal regulators are rewriting the rules for the trading market and what that means for trading companies. The keynote address will be delivered by the Honorable Nora Mead Brownell, a commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

The conference is sponsored by the Platts family of electricity and natural gas market products including Power Markets Week, Inside FERC's Gas Market Report, Gas Daily, Megawatt Daily, Platts Energy Trader and Global Energy Business.

For more information or to register, go to www.platts.com and hit the Day of the Trader banner. You can also call Custom Meetings International at 718-317-6737 or e-mail [e-mail].

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