CME Expands Quarterly Month Listings of Equity Index Futures Products
Effective as of June 24, 2007. Read more here.

CME E-mini^® S&P 500^® futures provide investors with an innovative tool for accessing and managing risks on stock market investments. Fully electronic and 1/5^th the size of a standard CME S&P 500^® futures contract, it closely tracks the price movements of the S&P 500^® Index, the premier benchmark of stock market performance. More than 1 million contracts traded on average per day in 2006, making it one of the most highly-traded futures contracts in the world and reinforcing CME’s position as the world’s leading provider of stock-index futures.

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Benefits

• Fast, efficient way to trade the benchmark S&P 500 Index (and the underlying 500 large-cap U.S. issues) with a single contract
• Smaller contract well-suited for a broad range of individual and institutional customer needs
• Substantial liquidity and tight bid/ask spreads
• Electronically traded on the CME Globex^® platform, offering speed, reliability, anonymity and trading around the clock, around the world
• Accommodates a variety of strategies such as hedging to protect against adverse price moves, spreading with other stock-index futures and gaining broad market exposure
• Level playing field from open, fair and transparent markets
• Potentially lower trading costs than trading a basket of equities or ETFs
• Guarantee of counterparty credit and central clearing by CME Clearing

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