The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation has adopted the following margin parameters in connection with the start of trading of the CBOT® Dow Jones Composite Average^SM Index, the CBOT® Dow Jones Transportation Average^SM Index, and the CBOT® Dow Jones Utilities Average^SM Index on Thursday, July 20, 2000:

Should you have any questions, please call or e-mail one of the following Business Systems Analysts:

“Dow Jones^SM”, “The Dow^SM” , “Dow Jones Utilities Average^SM”, "Dow Jones Transportation Average^SM", , "Dow Jones Composite Average^SM" and "DJUA^SM", "DJTA^SM" and "DJCA^SM" are service marks of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. and have been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago (“CBOT”). The CBOT’s futures and futures options contracts based on the Dow Jones^SM Indexes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Dow Jones^SM, and Dow Jones^SM makes no representation regarding the advisability of trading such product(s).