NYMEX Sets Daily Volume Record For RBOB Futures On CME Globex®

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMX), announced today that it set a daily volume record for the RBOB gasoline futures contract on the CME Globex electronic trading platform yesterday.

RBOB futures reached 101,724 contracts, exceeding the 92,139 contracts traded on April 17.

NYMEX launched its physically settled futures contracts for trading on CME Globex during regular open outcry trading hours on September 5, 2006, following its initial offering of financially settled, standard-sized and NYMEX miNYTM energy futures contracts for trading on CME Globex on June 12. On December 4, NYMEX introduced full-sized and COMEX miNYTM metals futures contracts for side-by-side trading.

Access to electronic trading of NYMEX energy and metals products is available virtually 24 hours a day on CME Globex.

For more information, go to www.nymexoncmeglobex.com.