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NYBOT To Reduce Fees For All Currency Pairs

Date 29/11/2005

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that effective with the start of trading on January 2, 2006, the Exchange is reducing the combined Exchange and Clearing Fee on all NYBOT Currency Futures and Options contracts other than the USDX® Index contract for all customer trades (both member and non-member), whether open outcry or Exchange for Physical trades (“EFP’s”), to $0.77 per side.

“We’re proud of the growth of NYBOT’s currency market, and appreciate the support they’ve received from market participants from all sectors,” said C. Harry Falk, President and CEO of NYBOT. “We are committed to serving these customers, and we’re happy to demonstrate this commitment.”

NYBOT’s currency futures and options market, which has trading floors in New York and Dublin, serves the interbank market with 29 currency pairs in U.S. dollar-based, Euro-based and other currency cross rate contracts. The New York Day Session is from 8:05 am to 3:00 pm (all NY Times) and the Evening Session is from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm; the Dublin Session is from 3:00 am to 8:05 am.

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.