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NYBOT Announces New FCOJ Position Limits

Date 30/03/2005

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that effective immediately, the limit on the maximum net long or net short position which any one person may hold or control in Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ) Futures Contracts and Futures Equivalent Contracts has been increased to 3,200 in any other month and 3,200 in all months combined.

The spot month position limit remains unchanged at 300 contracts.

NYBOT’s FCOJ contracts (symbol OJ) have a trading unit of 15,000 pounds of orange solids, and trade from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm (NY Time).

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is New York’s original futures exchange, where the world trades food, fiber and financial products. For well over a century, the New York Board of Trade has provided reliability, integrity and security in a global marketplace for cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, pulp, and sugar, as well as currency and index futures and options. Information about the New York Board of Trade can be found at www.nybot.com and www.nybotlive.com.