NYMEX Sets Daily Volume Records For Silver And Palladium Futures On CME Globex®

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), today announced that it set daily volume records yesterday for silver and palladium futures traded on the CME Globex electronic trading platform.

Silver futures reached 95,223 contracts, surpassing the 72,283 contracts traded on February 26.

Palladium futures totaled 7,285 contracts, exceeding the 7,085 contracts traded on February 26.

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 miNY energy futures contracts for trading on CME Globex on June 12, 2006. On December 4, 2006, NYMEX introduced full-sized and COMEX miNY metals futures contracts for side by side trading. Options trading launched on CME Globex on June 25.

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 http://www.nymexoncmeglobex.com/.