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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 17, 2012) - Don Coxe, Strategy Advisor, BMO Financial Group, will be available for interviews ahead of the 21^st Annual BMO Capital Markets' Global Metals & Mining Conference to discuss the commodity boom as it marks its 10^th year.

Mr. Coxe will take a look back at the performance of key resources over the last decade and look forward at what factors will shape the market. He will address topics including:

• What is the state of the commodity markets?
• How will the Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates near zero impact gold in the near-term?
• What weighting should commodities hold in today's portfolios?

What:

Don Coxe, Strategy Advisor, BMO Financial Group, will be available for one-on-one interviews with members of the media by pre-registration only.

Media interested in scheduling telephone interviews with Mr. Coxe should pre-register with BMO Capital Markets media relations department at (416) 867-3996 or email alexis.brown@bmo.com.

When:

Tuesday, February 21: 3 - 4 p.m. ET

Wednesday, February 22: 3 - 4 p.m. ET

Thursday, February 23: 3 - 4 p.m. ET

Friday, February 24: 3 - 4 p.m. ET

About Don Coxe

Don Coxe is Strategy Advisor to BMO Financial Group. His investment journal, Basic Points and his conference calls are distributed exclusively for clients in North America, Europe and Asia.

With 39 years of institutional investment and money management experience in the United States and Canada, he has a unique background in North American and global capital markets.

Mr. Coxe is advisor to the Coxe Commodity Strategy Fund and the Coxe Global Agribusiness Income Fund in Canada, the Virtus Global Commodity Stock fund in the US and the BMO Global Commodities Fund in Europe.

About BMO's Metals & Mining Conference

Nearly 1,500 are registered to attend the 21^st annual BMO Capital Markets Global Metals & Mining Conference, one of the largest events in the world for metals and mining investors. The event is being held from February 26 to February 29, 2012 in Hollywood, Florida.

The three-day conference is being hosted by BMO's Metals & Mining Equity Research team. With nine dedicated metals and mining analysts in Toronto, London, and Denver, the BMO team collectively covers more than 150 companies, making it one of the largest mining research efforts in the world.

About BMO Capital Markets

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider, with 2,300 employees operating in 17 North American offices and 30 worldwide, offering corporate, institutional and government clients access to a complete range of investment and corporate banking products and services. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE:BMO)(TSX:BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$479 billion total assets and more than 47,000 employees as at October 31, 2011.