Trading of Interest Rate Financial Futures Contracts Starts 15 Minutes Earlier on 15 January 2007

TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for all Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts (except for Exchange Forex Margin Contracts) on 15 January 2007, responding to the release of statistics for Orders Received for Machinery 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, Orders Received for Machinery)
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	: info@tfx.co.jp
URL	: http://www.tfx.co.jp/en/

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