CME to Support Rapid Volume Growth with New Market Data Platform for Customers and Quote Vendors

CHICAGO, Aug. 1, 2005 -To support its rapid growth in trading volume, CME, the largest futures exchange in the U.S., todayannounced the launch of its new market data distribution system, CME Market Data Platform (MDP), which will consolidate the exchange’s existing CME Market Data Network (MDN) and CME Market Data API (MD Application Program Interface) into a single market data dissemination platform.