CME Group Announces Trading Hours for U.S. National Day of Mourning to Honor Former President Jimmy Carter

<div class=\"default-font-wrapper\" style=\"line-height: 1;font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;\"><p id=\"isPasted\" style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;\'>CME Group Monday afternoon announced that it will honor the passing of former President Jimmy Carter by implementing an early close for agricultural, equity and interest rate markets on the National Day of Mourning on Thursday, January 9, 2025.</span></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><br></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;\'>U.S. equity markets will be open until 8:30 a.m. CT on January 9. All U.S. equity options expiring on January 9 will be moved to expire on January 8.</span></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><br></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;\'>Interest rates and agricultural markets will close at 12:15 p.m. CT on Thursday, January 9.</span></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><br></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;\'>BrokerTec U.S. Repo and Treasury products will have an early close of 2:30 p.m. CT and 1:30 p.m. CT, respectively, on January 9.</span></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;\'>CME Group cryptocurrency, energy, foreign exchange, and metals markets, as well as products traded on the EBS platform, will operate with normal trading hours.</span></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><br></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;\'>The full trading schedule for January 9 can be found <a href=\"https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4332049-1&h=4169287006&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2Fnotices%2Fser%2F2024%2F12%2Fser-9499.html&a=here\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.</span></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><br></p><p style=\'margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Aptos\",sans-serif;margin:0in;\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial\",sans-serif;\'>All products trading on CME Globex will reopen at their regularly scheduled time on January 9 for a trade date of January 10.</span></p></div>