Message-ID: <16413926.1075849674351.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 02:29:00 -0700 (PDT) From: soblander@carrfut.com To: soblander@carrfut.com Subject: (01-157) Exchange Early Contract Closing Schedule for May 25, 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: SOblander@carrfut.com X-To: soblander@carrfut.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \John_Griffith_Nov2001\Notes Folders\Market X-Origin: GRIFFITH-J X-FileName: jgriffit.nsf Notice # 01-157 May 14, 2001 TO: ALL NYMEX/COMEX DIVISION MEMBERS ALL NYMEX/COMEX DIVISION MEMBER FIRMS ALL NYMEX/COMEX DIVISION CLEARING FIRMS ALL NYMEX/COMEX DIVISION OPERATION MANAGERS FROM: Stu Smith, Senior Vice President, Operations RE: Exchange Early Contract Closing Schedule for May 25, 2001 Please be advised that the Exchange will close markets earlier on Friday, May 25, 2001, the business day preceding Memorial Day. The following early contract closing schedule will be implemented: NYMEX DIVISION Commodity Closing Range Palladium Futures 11:58 a.m. - 12:00 noon Platinum Futures and Options 12:08 p.m. - 12:10 p.m. Heating Oil Futures and Options *12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Unleaded Gasoline Futures and Options *12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Crack Gas & Crack Heat Options 12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Propane Futures 12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Crude Oil Futures and Options 12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Henry Hub Natural Gas Futures &Options *12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Permian Pool Natural Gas Futures 12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Alberta Natural Gas Futures 12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Gulf Coast Gasoline Futures 12:58 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. COMEX DIVISION Aluminum Futures and Options 11:59 a.m. - 12:00 noon Copper Futures and Options **12:04 p.m. - 12:05 p.m. Silver Futures and Options 12:04 p.m. - 12:05 p.m. Gold Futures and Options 12:09 p.m. - 12:10 p.m. The Eurotop 100 & 300 contracts will conduct normal trading hours. The NYMEX Late Submissions Area is scheduled to close at 2:30 p.m. and the NYMEX Trade Correction Area will close at 3:15 p.m., the TMS trade allocation screens will be available until 4:30 p.m. The COMEX Division's OLTE System will be available for corrections until 2:30 p.m. In the event that you require additional time to process work, or have questions regarding early close procedures, please call Fred Tantao 299-2045, Rob Stasi 299-2067, George Henderson 299-2071, Les Faison 299-2070 (NYMEX Division) or Michael Campanelli 299-2072, David Sherman 299-2061 (COMEX Division). * Option Expiration Procedure will be conducted at approximately 3:15 p.m. for the ON, OH & GO June 2001 contract months. ** Option Expiration Procedure will be conducted for the HX June 2001 contract month. *** All Electricity Future and Option contracts on NYMEX Access will close at 1:00 p.m. Carr Futures 150 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1500 Chicago, IL 60606 USA Tel: 312-368-6149 Fax: 312-368-2281 soblander@carrfut.com http://www.carrfut.com