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IPE Launches Enhanced IPE Energylive<SUP>TM</SUP> Service

Date 18/08/2003

The IPE, Europe's leading energy futures and options exchange, today announced a deal with FutureSource to serve as the new technology provider for IPE EnergyLiveâ„¢, the IPE's web based real-time data delivery product.

The new version of IPE EnergyliveTM will enable customers to gain access to additional functionality that will provide significant enhancements without an increase in subscription fees.

"Comprehensive charting and weather maps have been added to the existing real-time IPE prices, along with Dow Jones Newswires Energy News, creating a functionally rich and cost effective source of energy information," said Stuart Wood, IPE Head of E-Commerce.

"We have worked closely with FutureSource and would like to thank them for their effort on this project," Wood continued. "The charting capabilities that they bring to IPE EnergyliveTM are widely recognized as some of the best in the industry. These enhancements were developed in co-operation with our existing and potential customers to establish a new set of leading edge features that will benefit the broad range of energy market participants we serve."

IPE EnergyliveTM is available at www.theipe.com/data/live.asp

FutureSource provides traders, brokers and risk managers with comprehensive futures, options and cash price data, news, and charting analysis tools through a series of networked, stand-alone, and Internet delivery platforms and software applications. FutureSource has corporate offices in Lombard, Illinois, with sales offices in Chicago, New York, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, London, Sydney and Mexico City, along with reseller offices that combine to serve futures and commodities traders worldwide.