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ICE Futures Achieves New Brent Crude Futures Volume, Exchange-wide Open Interest Records

Date 01/12/2006

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace, announced that its regulated futures subsidiary, ICE Futures, yesterday set a new volume record in the ICE Brent Crude futures contract.

ICE Brent Crude futures reached a new daily volume record of 280,152 contracts on November 30, surpassing by 5.6% the previous record of 265,355 contracts set on October 30.

ICE Futures also established a new exchange-wide open interest record on November 30 of 1,515,376 contracts.