CME Group Inc. Announces Date of Fourth-Quarter, Year-End 2012 Earnings Release, Conference Call

CHICAGO, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc. will announce earnings for the fourth quarter and year end of 2012 after the financial markets close on Tuesday, February 5, 2013.  The company has scheduled an investor conference call that day at 3:30 p.m. Central time.

A live audio Webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of the company's Web site, www.cmegroup.com.  Following the conference call, an archived recording will be available at the same site.  Those wishing to listen to the live conference via telephone should dial 800-593-0370 if calling from within the United States or 773-681-5843 if calling from outside the United States, at least 10 minutes before the call begins. 

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk.  CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.  CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex^® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago.  CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, which offers clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.

CME Group is a trademark of CME Group Inc. The Globe Logo, CME, Globex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.  CBOT and the Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc.  NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are registered trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.  COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Further information about CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) and its products can be found at www.cmegroup.com.

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SOURCE CME Group Inc.