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Business Description
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (CME) offers market participants the opportunity to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts, primarily in four product areas, including interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. CME's key products include Eurodollar contracts and contracts based on United States stock indexes, including the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ-100. The Company also offers contracts for the principal foreign currencies and for a number of commodity products, including cattle, hogs and dairy. Its products provide a means for hedging, speculation and asset allocation relating to the risks associated with interest-rate sensitive instruments, equity ownership, changes in the value of foreign currency and changes in the prices of commodity products. CME's customers include professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, supranational entities and governments.

Financial Information
For the nine months ended 9/30/04, revenues rose 36% to $556.8 million. Net income rose 76% to $162.8 million. Revenues reflect an increase in average trading volume and an increase in securities lending interest income. Net income reflects a decrease in depreciation and marketing expenses.