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Feb 04, 2011

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Equity Options: Extension of Maturities for German Equity Options consistently to 60 Months and for Russian Equity Options consistently to 24 Months

Effective February 14, 2011, the Management Boards of the Eurex Exchanges decided to extend the maturities for German and Russian equity options.

Maturities for German equity options will be set consistently to 60 months. Maturities of German equity options of currently only 24 months will be extended to 60 months. Please refer to the first table of this circular for a list of affected German equity options.

Maturities of Russian equity options will be set consistently from twelve to 24 months. Please refer to the second table of this circular for a list of affected Russian equity options.

Thus the maturity range of the OTC Flexible Options Entry facility will also be extended.

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