NYBOT World Sugar Futures Contract Sets New Open Interest Record

On December 23, 2004, the Sugar No. 11^SM futures contract at the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®), the world’s leading “soft” commodity exchange, hit an all-time high open interest mark of 340,704 contracts, replacing the previous high of 338,615 contracts set on October 18, 2004.

NYBOT’s World Sugar contract is 112,000 lbs. of raw centrifugal cane sugar from 29 countries throughout the world, including Australia, Brazil, India, and the United States. The contract trades from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (NY Time), and has four delivery months including March, May, July and October. The Sugar No. 11 ticker symbol is SB.

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.