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Electronic soft commodity futures trading at the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), reached 48,884 contracts today, or more than 24% of overall daily volume in those products. The new highreplaces two previous record days of electronic soft commodity trading at NYBOT from yesterday,February 5 (24,063 contracts, approximately 18% of daily volume) and Friday, February 2 (13,164contracts, and approximately 11% of daily volume).
In addition, new open interest records in NYBOT Sugar No. 11SM, Cotton No. 2SM and Coffee “C”_contracts have been established for the past two days of side-by-side trading. Today’s recordsinclude all-time open interest highs of 698,496 contracts for sugar, 194,912 contracts for cotton, and137,239 contracts for coffee.
Chuck Vice, ICE President and COO, said: “Today’s impressive performance has exceeded ourinitial expectations and is further evidence of the growth that increased access through ourelectronic platform brings to these important global contracts. We are encouraged by the newopen interest records for these products.”
ICE, the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodities exchange, and its regulatedsubsidiary, NYBOT, introduced side-by-side trading for the NYBOT physical soft commodity contractson Friday, February 2. Contracts offered include cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice and sugar.
About IntercontinentalExchange
IntercontinentalExchange® (NYSE: ICE) operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for trading both futuresand OTC energy contracts and the leading soft commodity exchange. ICE’s markets offer access to a range ofcontracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions, as well as soft commoditiesincluding cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in addition to currency and index futuresand options. ICE® conducts its energy futures markets through its U.K. regulated London-based subsidiary, ICEFutures, Europe’s leading energy exchange. ICE Futures offers liquid markets in the world’s leading oil benchmarks,Brent Crude futures and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude futures, trading nearly half of the world’s global crudefutures by volume of commodity traded. ICE conducts its soft commodity futures and options markets through itsU.S. regulated subsidiary, the New York Board of Trade®. For more than a century, the NYBOT® has provided globalmarkets for food, fiber and financial products. ICE was added to the Russell 1000® Index on June 30, 2006.Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Houston, London, New York and Singapore. Formore information, please visit www.theice.com and www.nybot.com.
