Thursday, March 21, 2013

An Exchange Notice from the CME Group

Revised Trading Hours on CBOT Commodity and KCBT Wheat Futures and Options
Effective
Sunday, April 7 (trade date Monday, April 8), all CBOT commodity futures and option and KCBT Wheat futures and options electronic trading hours will be modified on CME Globex. The new trading hours will be:
  • Sunday to Thursday 19:00 to 07:45 Central Time (CT)
  • Monday to Friday, Pause 07:45 to 08:30 CT
  • Monday to Friday 08:30 to 13:15 CT
Mini-Sized Corn, Mini-Sized Soybeans and Mini-Sized Wheat will continue to trade on CME Globex until 13:45 CT.
The FIX/FAST preliminary settlement messages for these products will be disseminated beginning at 13:30 CT, after the CME Globex market close. Currently, the FIX/FAST messages for these products are disseminated around 14:15 CT. ITC settlement messages will continue to be sent as soon as settlement prices are available.