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NYBOT Seat Prices Hit Record High

Date 12/08/2004

A full seat at the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) yesterday sold for $240,000, a record amount. The previous high was for $230,000, set on August 3, 2004.

A full seat at NYBOT entitles the holder the right to trade every product at the exchange, including all agricultural and financial products, as well as both futures and options contracts.

NYBOT publishes recent seat sales in the Market Information section on its website at www.nybot.com.

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 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.