NYMEX Sets Natural Gas Daily Volume Record On CME Globex®

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

Natural gas futures totaled 158,525 contracts, exceeding the 151,184 contracts traded on November 1.

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/.