CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, issued the following statement in response to the SEC's ruling on Chicago Board Options Exchange's (CBOE) "rule interpretation" terminating exercise rights and creating a temporary trading permit program:

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, today announced that it has successfully completed the first phase of migrating the e-cbot futures and options on futures contracts on to its CME Globex electronic trading platform.

CME Group, the Kansas City Board of Trade and the Minneapolis Grain Exchange announced today that KCBT and MGEX electronically traded products will be available on CME Globex beginning Sunday, January 13, 2008.

CME Group, the Kansas City Board of Trade and the Minneapolis Grain Exchange announced that KCBT and MGEX electronically traded products will be available on CME Globex beginning Sunday, January 13, 2008.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, today announced upcoming technology and interest rate product enhancements designed to create a more liquid, efficient and competitive marketplace for market participants worldwide. All enhancements are scheduled to be implemented in first quarter 2008.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange announced that it has appointed John L. Santana as Managing Director, Front-End Systems Technology.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, posted total annual volume during 2007 of nearly 2.8 billion contracts, achieving record volume growth for the seventh consecutive year on a combined basis. The company achieved combined annual volume growth exceeding 20 percent for the seventh straight year and the largest percentage growth year-over-year since 2002.

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME)(NASDAQ: CME) will announce earnings for the fourth quarter and full year of 2007 before the financial markets open on Tuesday, February 5, 2008. The company has scheduled an investor conference call that day at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time (8:00 a.m. Central time).

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, announced today that the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has granted CME, a CME Group Company, the status of a Recognized Body within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The DFSA is the independent, integrated regulatory authority responsible for the regulation of all financial and ancillary services conducted in or from the DIFC.

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), announced that it set a daily volume record yesterday for the natural gas futures contract on the CME Globex electronic trading platform.

CME Group (NYSE: CME)(NASDAQ: CME) announced today that Chief Executive Officer Craig Donohue will present at the Goldman Sachs Financial Services CEO Conference 2007, to be held at The Pierre in New York City.

Today, a broad coalition of exchanges, brokers and market participants in the United States financial industry filed a "friend of the court" brief in Federal Appeals Court challenging the legal authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to prosecute claims that Amaranth Advisors manipulated the price of natural gas futures traded on a futures exchange.