Notice of Availability; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Proposed Amendments to the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Price Index Futures and Futures Option Contracts and the E-Mini Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Price Index Futures and Option Contracts

摘要

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has submitted proposed amendments to halve the multiplier in the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Price Index (S&P 500) futures contract and to double the minimum price fluctuation in the S&P 500 futures and option contracts. The CME also has submitted proposed amendments to increase the minimum price fluctuation limit in the E-Mini Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Price Index (E-Mini S&P 500) futures and futures option 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.