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May 08, 2009

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Hypo Real Estate Holding AG: Final Information on the Takeover Offer

On May 6, 2009, UBS Securities LLC (“UBS“) took over the commodities index business of AIG Financial Product Corp. (“AIG“). Consequently, the names of the Dow Jones-AIG indexes were changed to Dow Jones-UBS indexes.

Effective May 11, 2009, the Eurex futures on these indexes will be renamed accordingly to futures on Dow Jones-UBS indexes. All other product specifications, including the Eurex codes and ISINs will remain unchanged.

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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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