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.

Chicago is a big-time sports town with die hard fans for their Bears, Bulls, Cubs, and the World Champion Chicago White Sox. Even if you don’t like baseball, you’ll have the time of your life just like Ferris Bueller as you take in a Cubs game at Wrigley.

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.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, will close its trading floors at both the CME and CBOT buildings on Tuesday, December 25 and Tuesday, January 1, 2008, in observance of Christmas and New Year's Days. Abbreviated trading hours will be held for certain products on both Monday, December 24 and Monday, December 31.

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. today announced that it will list crack spread options and one-month calendar spread options for its crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, and RBOB gasoline contracts on CME Globex, beginning on December 16 for trade date December 17.

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), announced that it set daily volume records yesterday for its gold contract on the CME Globex ® electronic trading platform, overall gold futures, and total metals futures for COMEX.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange and the largest regulated marketplace for foreign exchange (FX) trading, today announced that is has expanded its FX team by appointing K.C. Lam as Director and Head of Asian FX Sales.

The Chicago History Museum has teamed up with the band Chicago to commemorate the band’s 40th anniversary by presenting the installation CHICAGO 40: The Band and its City, at the Museum’s entrance which will be on display, Tuesday, December 4, and will run through Sunday, March 30, 2008.

The patrol of the University of Chicago police has increased around the campus after the death of a Senegalese Ph.D. student and two others.

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), set daily volume records today for total crude oil futures traded on electronic and open outcry venues and crude oil futures traded on the CME Globex electronic trading platform.

New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced a complete trading and processing schedule for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve 2007 and New Year's Day 2008 (all in Eastern time):