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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (1535)	10/6/2006 2:57:52 PM
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CBOT Full-sized Gold Futures Contract Surpass 60 percent Market Share for the First Time in a Single Trading Day --CBOT Full-sized Silver Futures Achieves 10,000 Contracts in Open Interest-- CHICAGO, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT(R)) (NYSE: BOT) announced today that its Full-sized (100 oz.) Gold futures contract surpassed a market share milestone of 60 percent on October 2, capturing 64 percent of all listed Gold futures traded in North America that day. Open interest in the CBOT's Full-sized (5,000 oz.) Silver futures grew beyond 10,000 contracts and set a new record of 10,064 contracts yesterday. The previous record was 9,959 contracts set on September 29, 2006. Average daily volume in the CBOT Gold complex, consisting of Full-sized (100 oz.) Gold futures and options and mini-sized (33 oz.) Gold futures contracts, reached 52,464 contracts during September and achieved a market share of 54 percent of all Gold futures traded in North America for the month. The CBOT Metals Complex includes Full-sized (100 oz.) Gold futures and options contracts, mini-sized (33 oz.) Gold futures contracts, Full-sized (5,000 oz.) Silver futures and options contracts and mini-sized (1,000 oz.) Silver futures contracts. These products are available for trading 22 hours per day on the e-cbot(R) electronic trading platform. For more information about the CBOT Precious Metals Complex please visit the Exchange's web site at cbot.com . Copyright © 1996-2006 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. A United Business Media company. prnewswire.com