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BMO Financial Group will announce its fourth quarter financial results and hold its investor community conference call on November 25, 2003.

• Investor Community Conference Call

- Time: 2:00pm EST
- The conference call will be available in a listen-only mode:

     - via telephone at : 1 (888) 789-0089 or (416) 695-9753 (Toronto area)
     - via the Internet at: www.bmo.com/investorrelations

• Presentation material referenced during the conference call will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations

• Conference Call Rebroadcast

- A rebroadcast of the investor community presentations will be available until midnight, Friday, December 5, 2003, by calling 1 (888) 742-2491 or (416) 695-5278 and entering passcode 5967.

- The webcast will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations until Monday, February 23, 2004.

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