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Subject:(01-427) EXCHANGE EXTENDS ABBREVIATED TRADING HOURS INDEFINITELY
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Date:Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:04:13 -0800 (PST)

Notice No. 01-427
December 6, 2001

TO: All NYMEX and COMEX Division Members
All Clearing Members and Member Firms

FROM: J. Robert Collins, Jr., President

RE: EXCHANGE EXTENDS ABBREVIATED TRADING HOURS INDEFINITELY

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that it would extend
the abbreviated trading hours currently in place indefinitely.

The Exchange board made this decision in light of continued commuting
concerns and the heavier-than-normal volumes experienced by the Exchange,
despite the reduced hours.

Trading hours are as follows:


Contract Open Outcry Trading NYMEX
ACCESS
Trading
Copper 8:10 AM to 1:00 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 8 AM
Aluminum 8:15AM to 12:55 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 8 AM
Gold 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 8 AM
Silver 9:05 AM to 1:25 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 8 AM
Eurotop 100
and 300
futures 8:15 AM to 11:00 AM
Platinum 8:20 AM to 1:05 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 8 AM
Palladium 8:30 AM to 1 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 8 AM
Propane 9:20 AM to 1:10 PM 5 to
7 PM, Mon. - Thurs.
Natural Gas 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM*
7 Sun./3:15 PM, M-Th to 9 AM
Brent Crude Oil 9:45 AM to 2:30 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 9 AM
Light, Sweet Crude Oil 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM 7
Sun./3:15 PM, M-Th to 9 AM
Heating Oil 10:05 AM to 2:30 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 9 AM
Unleaded Gasoline 10:05 AM to 2:30 PM 7 Sun./3:15
PM, M-Th to 9 AM
Crack Spread Options 10:05 AM to 2:30 PM

Brent/WTI Spread Options 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Coal Futures 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM


*Natural gas futures and options will close at 2:45 PM on any futures
termination day that falls on a Wednesday.