The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), announced today that, effective with the start of trading for the business day of July 2, 2007, the Exchange will no longer hold the FINEX evening floor session that has been held each business day from 7PM to 10PM ET. The last session will be held on Thursday, June 28, for Friday, June 29, 2007.
With the elimination of the New York evening floor session, the floor trading day for all NYBOT currency futures and options contracts will begin with the Dublin floor session at 7AM, local Dublin time. The electronic trading day for the US Dollar Index (USDX®) futures contract will continue to run from 8PM ET on the prior day through 4:15PM ET on the business day.
About IntercontinentalExchange
IntercontinentalExchange® (NYSE: ICE) operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for
trading both futures and OTC energy contracts and the leading soft commodity exchange. ICE’s
markets offer access to a range of contracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas,
power and emissions, as well as agricultural commodities including cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol,
orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in addition to currency and index futures and options. ICE®
conducts its energy futures markets through its U.K. regulated London-based subsidiary, ICE
Futures, Europe’s leading energy exchange. ICE Futures offers liquid markets in the world’s leading
oil benchmarks, Brent Crude futures and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude futures, trading
nearly half of the world’s global crude futures by volume of commodity traded. ICE conducts
its agricultural commodity futures and options markets through its U.S. regulated subsidiary, the New
York Board of Trade®. For more than a century, the NYBOT® has provided global markets for food,
fiber and financial products. ICE was added to the Russell 1000® Index on June 30, 2006.
Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Houston, London, New York and
Singapore. For more information, please visit www.theice.com and www.nybot.com.
