IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, announced that the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) established a new daily electronic volume record of 147,958 contracts on Monday, April 9. The new record exceeds by nearly 51% the March 2, 2007 record of 98,249 contracts. In addition, NYBOT established a daily volume record in Cotton No. 2SM futures with 74,339 contacts traded, including floor and electronic execution. New open interest records were also established in Cotton No. 2 futures.
ICE introduced side-by-side trading for NYBOT’s agricultural commodity contracts on February 2.
Contracts offered include futures based on cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice and sugar. NYBOT’s financial contracts, including the U.S. Dollar Index® and foreign exchange products, and other equity and commodity indices, are currently listed in an electronic test environment with the introduction of electronic trading beginning in late April 2007.
ICE yesterday announced that its Trading Center at 2 World Financial Center will open this Thursday, April 12. The electronic trading center will serve professional traders and provide access to ICE’s electronic markets across energy, soft commodities and financial products, as well as additional markets in which participants are qualified to trade.
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.
