IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, announced a second consecutive daily electronic trading record at the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) yesterday, with 149,389 futures contracts changing hands. The new record replaces the previous high established on Monday, April 9, of 147,958 contracts.
NYBOT’s soft commodity futures contracts, including cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice and sugar, began side-by-side trading on the ICE system on February 2, 2007. In March, 59% of the NYBOT softs traded electronically. The NYBOT U.S. Dollar Index®, foreign exchange products, and other equity and commodity indices are currently listed in an electronic test environment with electronic trading expected to commence in late April 2007.
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.
