ICE Futures U.S. Announces Changes To Options Floor Trading Hours

ICE Futures U.S.(TM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), announced today that effective with the start of trading on April 1, 2008, the exchange is implementing amendments to Rule 4.07 - Open Outcry Trading Hours, to provide for extended floor trading hours, as shown below, for the following options contracts (all times are New York times):

    Sugar No. 11 options                    8:10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
    Coffee "C" options                      8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
    Cocoa options                           8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
    USDX and Euro Index options             8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

For all other products, options floor trading hours are unchanged and remain as follows:

    Cotton No. 2 options                    10:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
    FCOJ-A options                          10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
    RJ-CRB and CI Indexes options           10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
    Russell and NYSE Stock Index options    9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

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