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Euronext.liffe Robusta Coffee Futures Contract Breaks Daily Volume Record

Date 03/11/2003

Euronext.liffe Robusta Coffee Futures Contract Breaks Daily Volume Record Euronext.liffe's Robusta Coffee futures contract set a new all-time daily volume record of 37,402 contracts on Friday 31 October 2003, breaking the previous record of 34,068 contracts set on 31 October 2002. Open interest as at 31 October 2003 stood at 123,602 contracts.

Euronext.liffe's Robusta Coffee futures contract trades from 09:40 to 16:55 (London time) and is relied upon as the global benchmark for the pricing of physical Robusta Coffee. It is actively traded by producers, exporters, trade houses, importers and roasters as well as by managed funds and both institutional and short-term investors. There are ten delivery months available for trading which include January, March, May, July, September & November.

The Robusta Coffee futures contract, and associated options contract, form part of a diverse range of commodity products traded at Euronext.liffe, which also includes Cocoa, White Sugar, Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat, Rapeseed, Corn, Potatoes and Pigs.

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

Euronext.liffe is the derivatives business of Euronext, comprising the Amsterdam, Brussels, LIFFE, Lisbon and Paris derivatives markets. Euronext.liffe is creating a single market for derivatives, by bringing all its derivatives products together on a single electronic trading platform, LIFFE CONNECT®. The replacement of multiple trading venues with a single market will make cross-border trading easier and cheaper. Today, Euronext.liffe is the world's largest derivatives exchange, by value of the business transacted through the exchange every day. For further information on Euronext.liffe please visit www.liffe.com and www.euronext.com