Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

ICE Futures Brent Crude Trading Update

Date 23/03/2006

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) reported that its futures business segment, ICE Futures, incurred a processing error involving an order in the ICE Futures Brent Crude futures markets late yesterday that impacted a very small number of trades in that market. Due to a related issue this morning, ICE Futures made the decision to suspend Brent trading between 8:12 a.m. London time (3:12 a.m. Eastern time) and 11:30 a.m. London time (6:30 a.m. Eastern time). The processing error was resolved, and active trading in Brent markets resumed. All other ICE Futures contracts and ICE OTC markets were unaffected.