CHICAGO, Sept. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group,
the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced that on Friday, September
11, the NYMEX and COMEX trading floors will observe moments
of silence to honor the victims of the terrorist attack on the
World Trade Center.
Open outcry trading will cease for one minute on four occasions
as follows: 8:46 a.m. ET and
9:03 a.m. ET, noting the times the
airplanes crashed into each tower and at 9:59 a.m. ET and 10:29
a.m. ET, noting the times that each tower collapsed.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (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, its trading
facilities in New York and
Chicago, and through its
London-based CME Europe
derivatives exchange. CME Group also operates one of the
world's leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME
Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing and
settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded
contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can
substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.
CME Group is a trademark of CME Group Inc. The Globe Logo, CME,
Globex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange are trademarks of Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and the Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the
Board of Trade of the City of
Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and
ClearPort are registered trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange,
Inc. KCBOT, KCBT and Kansas
City Board of Trade are trademarks of The Board of Trade of
Kansas City, Missouri, Inc.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Further information about CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) and its products
can be found at www.cmegroup.com.
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