Dubai Mercantile Exchange Announces Details of May 19, 2007 Production Testing for DME Direct™ and ClearPort® Clearing for DME Contracts In preparation for the June 1, 2007 launch of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME) and further to the production test successfully held on May 12, 2007 the Exchange will hold a second production test on Saturday, May 19, 2007 from 10.00 am to 12.00 pm Eastern Daylight Time. This will be the final production test planned prior to the June 1 launch.

The test on May 19 will provide customers of the DME with an opportunity to ensure the proper connectivity to DME Direct™ as well as offer a time to practice trading the DME products and test select functionality in a production trading environment. It is strongly suggested you make every effort to participate in this event. In order to ensure that your set-up can be confirmed it is essential that you complete both of the following activities on May 19:

    Connect successfully to DME Direct™ / NYMEX ClearPort® Trading
    Enter orders into DME Direct™ / NYMEX ClearPort® Trading using the full DME product slate

Please note that DME Direct™ connectivity will be required for this session. If you do not have (or know if you have) DME Direct™ connectivity, please contact your Clearing Member for help.

Time of test:

Saturday, May 19, 2007 10 am to 12 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Available systems and APIs:

Trading on DME Direct™ / NYMEX ClearPort® Trading
Trade Submission
NYMEX ClearPort® Clearing (GUI and API)

Trade Management:
NYMEX ClearPort® TMS: Trade Management functionality including eClerk

APIs
NYMEX Cleared Trades API
NYMEX ClearPort® TMS Allocation API
NYMEX ClearPort® Clearing API

For more information please contact Third Party Services at 1-800-275-6215 or Customer Service at 1-800-438-8616.