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Trading of Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts Starts 15 Minutes Earlier on 1 December 2006

(November 24 2006)

TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for all Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts (except for Exchange Forex Margin Contracts) on 1 December 2006, responding to the release of the Consumer Price Index at 8:30am.

< 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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