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Nasdaq Liffe Markets March 2003 Volume

Date 03/04/2003

Nasdaq Liffe Markets, LLC (NQLX) announced today that 55,485 contracts were traded in March on NQLX. Average daily volume in March was 2,642 contracts.

The top five security futures contracts by volume in March were:

Tickers Stocks Number of Contracts
IWM  iShares Russell 2000 13,771
QQQ  NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock 4,517
KLAC KLA-Tencor Corporation 2,505
MSFT Microsoft Corporation  2,350
XOM  Exxon Mobile Corporation 2,343

Each contract represents 100 shares of the underlying stock. NQLX has a total of 89 security futures products, including futures on the NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock (QQQ) and a suite of Russell iShares.

Open interest was at 32,957 on March 31, 2003.

NQLX is a fully electronic, federally regulated exchange formed as a joint venture between The NASDAQ Stock Market Inc.® and LIFFE (London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange). It lists security futures on both exchange-traded funds and the largest U.S. companies through LIFFE's electronic trading platform, LIFFE CONNECT™.