SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pacific Exchange, Inc. ("PCX") announced that at the opening of business on Wednesday January 4, 2006, it will commence trading options on the following equity securities: CBS Corp. -- Class A (PCX:CBS/A); CBS Corp. -- Class B (PCX:CBS); China Medical Technologies, Inc. (PCX:CMED); Global Crossing Ltd. (PCX:GLBC); Independence Community Bank Corp. (PCX:ICBC); ITT Educational Services, Inc. (PCX:ESI); iVillage, Inc. (PCX:IVIL); JLG Industries, Inc. (PCX:JLG); Korea Electric Power Corp. -- S.A. (PCX:KEP); Spansion, Inc. -- Class A (PCX:SPSN/SBU); VCA Antech, Inc. (PCX:WOOF); "New" Viacom, Inc. -- Class A (PCX:VIA); "New" Viacom, Inc. -- Class B (PCX:VIA/B). CBS Corp -- Class A options will trade on the February expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 75,000,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Patrick Hickey and Meaghan M. Dugan of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. CBS Corp -- Class B options will trade on the March expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 75,000,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market maker Catherine Clay of Timber Hill, LLC. China Medical Technologies options will trade on the March expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 20,000,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Ross Goodheart, Ken Keating and Bartev Vartanian of Group One Trading, LP. Global Crossing options will trade on the March expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 5,000,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Ross Goodheart, Ken Keating and Bartev Vartanian of Group One Trading, LP. Independence Community Bank options will trade on the March expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 25,000,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Ross Goodheart, Ken Keating and Bartev Vartanian of Group One Trading, LP. ITT Educational Services options will trade on the January expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 25,000,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market maker Catherine Clay of Timber Hill, LLC. iVillage options will trade on the January expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 7,500,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Ross Goodheart, Ken Keating and Bartev Vartanian of Group One Trading, LP. JLG Industries options will trade on the February expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 7,500,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Ross Goodheart, Ken Keating and Bartev Vartanian of Group One Trading, LP. Korea Electric Power options will trade on the March expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 7,500,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Ross Goodheart, Ken Keating and Bartev Vartanian of Group One Trading, LP. Spansion options will trade on the January expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 5,000,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market maker Catherine Clay of Timber Hill, LLC. VCA Antech options will trade on the March expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 20,000,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Ross Goodheart, Ken Keating and Bartev Vartanian of Group One Trading, LP. "New" Viacom, Inc. -- Class A options will trade on the February expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 2,500,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market makers Patrick Hickey and Meaghan M. Dugan of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. "New" Viacom, Inc. -- Class B options will trade on the March expiration cycle with exercise limits set at 2,500,000 shares. The issue will be traded by lead market maker Catherine Clay of Timber Hill, LLC. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on Archipelago's current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause Archipelago's actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. There can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Factors that could cause Archipelago's results to differ materially from current expectations include: general economic and business conditions, industry trends, competitive conditions, regulatory developments as well as other risks or factors identified in the Company's filings with the Securities Exchange Commission, including its Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2004 and the Registration Statement on form S-4 filed by the NYSE Group, Inc., which was declared effective on November 3, 2005 and which is available on the Company's website at http://www.archipelago.com/. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Except for any obligation to disclose material information under the Federal securities laws, Archipelago undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release. For more information contact Todd Swearingen, (312) 442-7747. Contact: Heter Myers Sloane & Co. 7 Times Square New York, NY10036 PH: (212) 446-1876 FX: (212) 702-9103 DATASOURCE: Archipelago CONTACT: Heter Myers of Sloane & Co., +1-212-446-1876, fax: +1-212-702-9103, for Archipelago Web site: http://www.archipelago.com/

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