Electronic soft commodity futures trading at the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), reached a new high of 75,317 contracts on Friday, February 9, or more than 24% of overall daily soft commodity futures volume. Total exchange-wide volume on February 9 of 372,603 contracts surpassed the previous record of 340,190 contracts established on February 7.
NYBOT Sugar No. 11SM futures, also known as World Sugar, achieved a new daily volume record on Friday of 201,365 contracts, exceeding the previous record of 155,727 contracts set on February 7. Electronic volume of 48,862 Sugar No. 11 futures contracts represented 24% of futures trading in the product. A Cotton No. 2SM volume record of 61,917 contracts was set on Thursday, February 8.
New open interest records were also set on February 8 in Sugar No. 11 (706,059 contracts), Cotton No. 2 (203,922 contracts), Coffee “C”® futures (138,745 contracts), and Coffee “C” options (195,028 contracts).
ICE, the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodities exchange, and its subsidiary NYBOT, introduced side-by-side trading for the NYBOT physical soft commodity contracts on Friday, February 2. Contracts offered include cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice and sugar. Beginning Tuesday, February 20, electronic markets in NYBOT soft commodities will be extended to operate from 1:30 a.m. ET to 3:15 p.m.
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 soft 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 soft 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.
