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Penny Pilot Program

The initial symbol rollout of the penny pilot was completed on February 9, 2007. Symbols included in that rollout were:

Option Class
WFMI - Whole Foods
GE - General Electric
MSFT - Microsoft
IWM - Ishares Russell 2000
QQQQ - QQQQ
SMH - SemiConductor Holders
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
INTC - Intel
CAT - Caterpiller
TXN - Texas Instruments
FLEX - Flextronics International
SUNW - Sun Micro
A - Agilent Tech, Inc.1
1Agilent Tech, Inc. was recently selected, and replaces Glamis Gold (GLG) which has been delisted.

The penny pilot rollout will be expanded beginning September 28, 2007. On that date, the following symbols will be converted to pennies:

Option Class
Mini-SPX (XSP/XSP)
SPDR S&P 500 (SPY/SPY)
NYSE Euronext (NYX/NYX)
Apple Inc. (AAPL/AAQ)
Cisco Systems (CSCO/CYQ)
Altria Group, Inc. (MO/MO)
Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF/XLF)
Dendreon Corp. (DNDN/UKO)
AT&T, Inc. (T/T)
Amgen Inc. (AMGN/AMQ)
Citigroup, Inc. (C/C)
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO/YHQ)
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN/ZQN)
Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM/QAQ)
Motorola Inc. (MOT/MOT)
General Motors (GM/GM)
Research in Motion Ltd. (RIMM/RUL)
Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE/XLE)
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. (FCX/DPJ)
Dow Jones Industrial Average(DJX/DJX)
Diamonds Trust (DIA/DIA)
ConocoPhillips (COP/COP)
Oil Services HLDRS (OIH/OIH)
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY/BMY)


The Penny Pilot Program currently in effect in 35 option classes is scheduled to expand on March 28, 2008. The following is a list of the 28 additional option classes that will be added to the Pilot Program on that date.

Option Class
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS)
Countrywide Financial Corporation (CFC)
Bank of America Corporation (BAC)
iShares MSCI Emerging Mkts. Index Fund (EEM)
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (MER)
Vale (RIO)
EMC Corporation (EMC)
Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT)
The Home Depot, Inc. (HD)
Valero Energy Corporation (VLO)
Alcoa Inc. (AA)
Dell Inc. (DELL)
SanDisk Corporation (SNDK)
The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (BSC)
Pfizer Inc. (PFE)
eBay Inc. (EBAY)
Halliburton Company (HAL)
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)
Washington Mutual, Inc. (WM)
Ford Motor Company (F)
Target Corporation (TGT)
American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
Newmont Mining Corporation (NEM)
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)
Mini-NDX Index Options (MNX)
Starbucks Corporation (SBUX)


RG08-044 Penny Pilot Expansion

CBOE Penny Pilot Report (03/04/2008)

IC08-019 Penny Pilot Expansion

CBOE Penny Pilot Report (11/01/2007)

IC07-150 SEC Approval of Penny Pilot Expansion

CBOE Penny Pilot Report (06/01/2007)

RG07-009 Penny Pilot Program

RG06-124 Penny Pilot Program and Quote Mitigation

Please contact Greg Burkhardt of Trading Operations (312-786-7531), with any questions.


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