Proposed Amendments to the Price Limit and Trading Halt Provisions in Domestic Stock Index Futures Contracts

الملخص

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), and New York Futures Exchange (NYFE) have submitted proposals to modify existing ``circuit breaker'' and related price limit provisions in those exchanges' domestic stock index futures contracts. The Director of the Division of Economic Analysis (Division) of the Commission, acting pursuant to the authority delegated by Commission Regulation 140.96, has determined that publication of the proposals for comment is in the public interest, will assist the Commission in considering the views of interested persons, and is consistent with the purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act.