NQLX January 2004 Volume

NQLX LLC announced today that 17,855 contracts were traded on its market in January.

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

Tickers	Stocks	Number of Contracts
YHOO	Yahoo!, Inc.	1,395
JNPR	Juniper Networks Inc.	1,264
MSFT	Microsoft Corp.	1,238

Each contract represents 100 shares of the underlying stock. NQLX has a total of 67 security futures products, including futures on the NASDAQ -100 Index Tracking StockSM (QQQ^SM) and a suite of Russell iShares^SM.

• Open interest was at 44,492 contracts on January 30, 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 its parent, 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.