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NYBOT Seat Prices Rushing Toward $500,000

Date 05/12/2005

A full seat at the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) sold today for a record high of $490,000, $21,000 more than the previous record of $469,000 set on November 15. Seat values have surged upward 40% in 2005 from an early January price of $350,000.

A full NYBOT seat allows the owner the right to trade every product at the exchange. The Exchange posts recent seat sales in the “Services” 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, 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.