Four New Currency Options Contracts To Be Launched At NYBOT

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that it will launch four new currency options contracts on its FINEX® Division this Friday, November 7, 2003. The new option contracts are based on the Hungarian Forint (US Dollar-Forint and Euro-Forint) and the Czech Koruna (US Dollar-Koruna and Euro-Koruna), and compliment the futures contracts based on the same four currency pairs launched on the exchange September 8, 2003.

Each of the new currency contracts will trade from 3:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (NY time). The US Dollar-Forint and US Dollar-Czech Koruna will have a contract size of US$200,000, and the Euro-Forint and the Euro-Czech Koruna will have a contract size of 100,000 Euros.

Complete contract specifications for both new products will be available at www.nybot.com.

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is the parent company of the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, Inc. (CSCE) and the New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE®). Through its two exchanges, NYBOT offers an expanding range of agricultural, currency and index products. Information about the New York Board of Trade can be found at www.nybot.com and www.nybotlive.com.