Onechicago To Launch Futures On DIAMONDS, 22 More Single Stocks Nov. 22

CHICAGO, IL, November 18, 2002 - OneChicago, LLC announced that it will offer futures contracts on the DIAMONDS exchange–traded fund (DIA) beginning Friday, Nov. 22. The Exchange also will roll out 22 more futures on single stocks.

DIAMONDS are shares in an exchange–traded fund (ETF) designed to track the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Each OneChicago contract will represent 100 shares of the underlying DIAMONDS ETF. Like all of OneChicago's products, DIAMONDS futures will be physically settled at expiration, electronically traded on the CBOEdirect® match engine and accessible through the CBOEdirect and GLOBEX® platforms. All security futures can be traded out of either a securities or a futures account.

Also on Friday, OneChicago will offer futures on 22 more single stocks. The new contracts are in addition to the 21 futures on single stocks that have been trading at OneChicago since Nov. 8. The new contracts include: Amgen Inc. (AMGN), AOL Time Warner Inc. (AOL), Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT), Cephalon Inc. (CEPH), ChevronTexaco Corp. (CVX), Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Dupont (DD), eBay Inc. (EBAY), Ford Motor Co. (F), General Motors Corp. (GM), Halliburton Co. (HAL), Honeywell International Inc. (HON), IBM (IBM), Intel Corp. (INTC), Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (MXIM), McDonald's Corp. (MCD), Micron Technology Inc. (MU), QLogic Corp. (QLGC), SanDisk Corp. (SNDK), Starbucks Corp. (SBUX), Tyco International Ltd. (TYC) and Wal–Mart Stores Inc. (WMT).

OneChicago is a joint venture of the Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®), Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®). For more information about OneChicago and its products, please access the OneChicago Web site at www.OneChicago.com.

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