ICE Futures U.S., Inc. (formerly the New York Board of Trade), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), announced today that it will observe moments of silence on Tuesday, September 11, 2007, marking the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The names of the members of the Exchange who were lost that day will be read in a brief ceremony on the trading floor at 2:45 p.m.
Open outcry trading will cease for one minute at 8:46 a.m. and 9:03 a.m., the times an airplane crashed into each tower, and again at 9:59 a.m. and 10:29 a.m., marking the times that each tower collapsed.
It is requested that all market participants refrain from trading electronically on the ICE electronic trading platform during these moments of silence in memory of the personnel affiliated with the Exchange who died that day.
Those who will be remembered are:
Dennis Foo (member of COMEX Division of NYMEX and ICE Futures U.S.)
Steven Furman (former NYMEX member)
Doug Gardner (ICE Futures U.S. member)
Joseph Heller (COMEX member)
Joseph Holland (NYMEX member)
Robert Hussa (former COMEX member)
Joseph Kellet (NYMEX member)
Neil Leavy (former COMEX member)
James McAlary, Jr. (NYMEX member)
Thomas McGinnis (NYMEX member)
Mark Motroni (member of NYMEX and ICE Futures U.S.)
David Nelson (COMEX member)
Edward Oliver (NYMEX member)
Robert O'Shea (NYMEX member)
Patrick O'Shea (member of COMEX and ICE Futures U.S.)
Mark Petrocelli (NYMEX Brent permit holder)
Edward Ryan (former member of NYMEX and COMEX)
Joseph Shea (ICE FUTURES U.S. member)
Paul Skrzypek (former NYMEX member)
Carlton Valvo (former NYMEX member)
Elkin Yuen (NYMEX member)
Evan Baron (Carr Futures)
Michael Canty (Carr Futures)
Christopher Dincuff (Carr Futures)
Brendan Dolan (Carr Futures)
Karen Klitzman (former NYMEX vice president of research)
Damian Meehan (Carr Futures)
Peter Raimondi (Carr Futures)
Lonny Stone (Carr Futures)
Scott Timmes (Carr Futures)
Christopher Traina (Carr Futures)
Alfred Vukosa (former NYMEX staff)
The former New York Board of Trade's trading facilities, back offices, and data center were completely destroyed in the September 11 attack. Because the Exchange had established an emergency backup facility after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, its trading floor was the first to reopen, on September 17, 2001.
