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e-miNY<SUP>sm</SUP> Energy Futures Contracts Set Record Volume

Date 09/07/2002

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced that a record 3,761 e-miNY energy futuressm and natural gas contracts traded today, topping the previous record of 3,324 contracts traded on June 26.

The new e-miNY energy futuressm trade on CME's GLOBEX® electronic trading platform and clear through the New York Mercantile Exchange clearinghouse. The contracts are 40% of the size of the New York Mercantile Exchange's standard-sized crude oil and natural gas futures contracts.

New York Mercantile Exchange President J. Robert Collins, Jr., said, "With consistent and growing volume, e-miNY energy futuressm are delivering upon their mission of providing an attractive trading tool to a new group of traders, allowing them to participate in the exploding growth occurring this year in the established crude oil and natural gas futures markets."