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Euronext.Liffe Cocoa Options Post Another Open Interest Record

Date 27/02/2003

Euronext.liffe's Cocoa options contract reached another new Open Interest record of 52,956 lots on Tuesday 25 February breaking the previous record of 52,781 lots set on 24 February 2003.

Euronext.liffe's Cocoa contract trades from 09:30 to 16:50 (London time) and is relied upon as the global benchmark for the pricing of physical Cocoa. It is actively traded by producers, exporters, trade houses, importers, processors and chocolate manufacturers as well as by managed funds and both institutional and short-term investors. There are ten delivery months available for trading which include March, May, July, September & December.

Cocoa forms part of a diverse range of commodity products traded at Euronext.liffe, which also includes Robusta Coffee, White Sugar, Feed Wheat, Barley, Milling Wheat, Rapeseed, Corn, Sunflower Seeds, Potatoes, Pigs and Weather.

Euronext was formed by the merger of the Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris cash and derivatives exchanges in September 2000. The Euronext Group has since grown further, adding BVLP (the Portuguese cash and derivatives exchange) and LIFFE (The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange). The derivatives businesses of Euronext and LIFFE are being combined under the Euronext.liffe umbrella with the phased migration of all of Euronext's derivatives markets to LIFFE CONNECTâ„¢, the most sophisticated electronic derivatives trading platform in the world. For further information on Euronext.liffe please visit www.liffe.com and www.euronext.com