Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® Sets New Record For Daily Volume For Carbon Financial Instrument® (CFI®) Options

Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE®), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc. (CCX®), announced yesterday that on July 25, 2008, CCFE established a new record for total daily volume in CCFE Carbon Financial Instrument® (CFI®) Options, with 755 contracts traded (755,000 metric tons CO2), surpassing the previous record set on February 29, 2008 when 550 contracts traded.

CCFE CFI futures and options have traded 21,246 contracts year-to-date in 2008, compared to 3,566 contracts traded in 2007.

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