The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), a regulated subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), issued a reminder today that Daylight Savings Time (“DST”) begins in the United States on Sunday, March 11, 2007. For any user of NYBOT products who is located outside the U.S., the start of DST means that electronic and floor trading hours for these contracts as expressed in the user’s local time will be one hour earlier, starting with the Monday, March 12 trading day. The NYBOT contracts traded on the ICE electronic platform are Cocoa, Coffee “C”®, Cotton No. 2sm, FCOJ, Sugar No. 11sm and Sugar No. 14sm.
About IntercontinentalExchange
IntercontinentalExchange® (NYSE: ICE) operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for trading both
futures and OTC energy contracts and the leading soft commodity exchange. ICE’s markets offer access to
a range of contracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions, as well as
agricultural commodities including cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in
addition to currency and index futures and options. ICE® conducts its energy futures markets through its
U.K. regulated London-based subsidiary, ICE Futures, Europe’s leading energy exchange. ICE Futures
offers liquid markets in the world’s leading oil benchmarks, Brent Crude futures and West Texas
Intermediate (WTI) Crude futures, trading nearly half of the world’s global crude futures by volume of
commodity traded. ICE conducts its agricultural commodity futures and options markets through its U.S.
regulated subsidiary, the New York Board of Trade®. For more than a century, the NYBOT® has provided
global markets for food, fiber and financial products. ICE was added to the Russell 1000® Index on June
30, 2006. Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Houston, London, New York
and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.theice.com and www.nybot.com.
