ICE Futures U.S. Extends Electronic Trading Hours for Russell Indexes and USDX(R) Futures Contracts

ICE Futures U.S., Inc. (formerly the New York Board of Trade), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), announced today that, effective at 8:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, September 6, 2007, it will extend the electronic trading hours for its Russell Indexes and US Dollar Index(R) (USDX) futures contracts to 6:00 p.m. ET. Currently the electronic trading day for these contracts ends at 4:15 p.m. ET.

With the extended hours, the electronic trading day for the Russell Indexes and the USDX futures contracts will commence at 8:00 p.m. ET on the business day prior to the trading day and end at 6:00 p.m. ET on the trading day, providing for a 22-hour electronic trading day.

Floor trading hours remain unchanged and daily settlement prices will continue to be determined at the end of the respective floor trading sessions, at 3:00 p.m. ET for the USDX and at 4:15 p.m. ET for the Russell Indexes.

Access to ICE Futures U.S. Russell Indexes and USDX contracts is available through WebICE, the web-based proprietary front end to ICE's trading system, as well as proprietary systems offered by brokerage firms and through approved independent software vendors (ISVs). More information about trading ICE's Russell Indexes and USDX futures on the ICE platform can be found by visiting the Exchange homepage at www.theice.com.