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Trading of Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts Starts 15 Minutes Earlier on 29 September 2006

(22 September 2006)

TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts (except for Exchange Forex Margin Contracts) on 29 September 2006, responding to the releases as follows:

・ The Consumer Price Index at 8:30am.
・ The Preliminary Report on Indices of Industrial Production at 8:50am.

< Opening on that day >
・ Pre-open 8:30am - 8:45am (Normal days 8:45am - 9:00am)
・ Open of morning session 8:45am (Normal days 9:00am)

Other trading hours are the same as usual.

Note1 :
The pre-open period and the morning session start 15 minutes earlier respectively on a day on which *important economic indices* are released.
(Important economic indices = Gross Domestic Product (preliminary), Consumer Price Index, Industrial Production Index (preliminary), Tankan survey)
Note2 :
The trading hours of the evening session are temporarily extended until 20:00 if any announcement that may have a significant impact on the financial markets such as the announcement of monetary policy meeting decisions of BOJ is not released by 17:00, though it is scheduled to be released.


For more information, please contact:
General Affairs Group, General Administration Department
Tel
: +81-3-3514-2400
Fax
: +81-3-3514-2425
E-mail
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