Euronext.liffe Commodity Products Achieve Record Half Year Volumes

Euronext.liffe’s Commodity Products portfolio continues to show impressive growth, with overall volumes up 13% when compared to the same period last year. In total some 4,358,663 contracts have been traded in 2005, an increase of half a million contracts over the first half of 2004, which was itself a record volume year.

Notable highlights include the following:

• Cocoa futures volume up 12%
• Robusta Coffee futures volume up 12%
• White Sugar futures volume up 19%
• Corn futures volume up 139%
• Feed Wheat options volume up 51%
• Milling Wheat futures volume up 73%
• Milling Wheat options volume up 71%
• Rapeseed futures volume up 24%
• Rapeseed options volume up 12%

The White Sugar futures contract also set a new monthly volume record of 158,251 contracts in June 2005, breaking the previous record of 155,706 contracts set in February 2005.

Euronext.liffe lists a broad range of Commodity Products which include Cocoa, Robusta Coffee, White Sugar, Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat, Rapeseed, Corn & Potatoes, all of which trade exclusively on LIFFE CONNECT®.

The contracts are actively traded by a diverse range of participants, including producers, exporters, trade-houses, processors and manufacturers as well as by managed funds and both institutional and short-term investors.

Free 15-minute delayed futures prices are available at www.liffe-commodities.com