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Sep 13, 2012

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EURO STOXX® ex Financials Futures contracts: Tradability by U.S. participants

Effective 20 September 2012, Eurex participants and investors domiciled in the U.S. will have access to trading of another product: EURO STOXX® ex Financials Futures contracts.

On 28 August 2012,the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight certified this contract submitted by Eurex for review on 12 July 2012. The contracts satisfy the requirements of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC’s Regulations and may be offered or sold to persons in the U.S. through Eurex’s direct access terminals located in the U.S.

The respective new product assignment groups are XACFQE (Equity Index Futures in Euro).

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The market status window is an indication regarding the current technical availability of the trading system. It indicates whether news board messages regarding current technical issues of the trading system have been published or will be published shortly.

Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the Eurex webpage under Support --> Emergencies and safeguards. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message. 

We strongly recommend not to take any decisions based on the indications in the market status window but to always check the production news board for comprehensive information on an incident.

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