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The New York Board Of Trade Launches "NYBOTLIVE"- Real-Time NYBOT Market Data Now Available On NYBOTLIVE.COM

Date 18/03/2003

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that it has launched "NYBOTLIVE", its all-new data service that offers real-time market data for all NYBOT's global futures and options markets directly over the Internet.

"For over a century, the global futures and options markets have relied on open outcry trading and the openness of our markets to ensure the best environment for negotiating prices for our products," said Patrick L. Gambaro, Interim Chief Operating Officer at NYBOT. "Now NYBOTLIVE brings this openness one step further by allowing anyone with an Internet connection direct access to what happens on our trading floor as the prices are determined."

"The NYBOTLIVE data service provides streaming real-time data in two different packages - both customizable and supported by a charting and analytical package to assist market watchers and traders in assessing the data. Market users can sign up for NYBOTLIVE Real Time Data services quickly, easily and inexpensively on the web. NYBOT streaming delayed data can be accessed for free just by registering at www.nybotlive.com.

NYBOTLIVE uses VeriSign to secure the NYBOTLIVE system. Security remains the primary concern of on-line consumers, and the VeriSign Secure Site Program allows one to learn more about web sites you visit before you submit any confidential information. Each VeriSign approved site, such as NYBOTLIVE, has a VeriSign Secure Server ID.

NYBOT's market prices originate in the historic open outcry trading pits where numerous price reporters enter pricing data directly into hand-held wireless computers as trades are executed. The data then goes to NYBOT's mainframe computers and out to the world through the traditional data vendors. With NYBOTLIVE, these same prices are now sent simultaneously to the NYBOT web site at www.nybotlive.com.

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is the parent company of the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, Inc. (CSCE) and the New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE). Through its two exchanges and their subsidiaries and divisions, NYBOT offers an expanding range of agricultural, currency and index products. Information about the New York Board of Trade can be found at www.nybot.com.