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NQLX February 2004 Volume

Date 03/03/2004

NQLX LLC announced today that 13,579 contracts were traded on its market in February.

The top three security futures contracts by volume in February were:

Tickers Stocks Number of Contracts
CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc. 1,556
INTC Intel Corp. 1,350
IWM iSharesSM Russell® 2000 1,203

Each contract represents 100 shares of the underlying stock. NQLX has a total of 65 security futures products, including futures on the NASDAQ -100 Index Tracking StockSM (QQQSM) and the iSharesSM Russell® 2000 (IWM).

  • Open interest was at 41,861 contracts on February 27, 2004.
  • On January 26, NQLX's parent company, The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), announced plans to launch a Eurodollar futures contract. In the coming months, NQLX, working in partnership with LIFFE, will explore whether there is sufficient customer demand for this contract to be made available through NQLX, subject to the approval of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
NQLX is a fully electronic, federally regulated exchange and a wholly owned company of Euronext.liffe. NQLX lists single stock futures and futures on broad based indices through Euronext.liffe's electronic trading platform, LIFFE CONNECT®, the world's most advanced derivatives trading system. For more information on NQLX visit: www.nqlx.com.