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Euronext.liffe Commodity Products Post Record January Futures Volume

Date 05/02/2003

Euronext.liffe Commodity Products traded a record January futures volume of 526,142 lots last month, breaking the previous record of 513,990 lots set in 1999 and up 42% when compared to January 2002.

Euronext.liffe's portfolio of commodity products includes Cocoa, Robusta Coffee, White Sugar, Feed Wheat, Barley, Milling Wheat, Rapeseed, Corn, Sunflower Seeds, Potatoes, Pigs and Weather. The contracts are actively traded by producers, exporters, trade houses, importers and end users as well as by managed funds and both institutional and short-term investors.

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