NYMEX To List Soft Futures Contracts On CME Globex®

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. announced today that it will offer its financially settled soft commodity futures contracts on the CME Globex electronic trading platform, beginning on January 7 for trade date January 8.

The soft futures commodities include NYMEX cocoa, NYMEX coffee, NYMEX cotton, NYMEX FCOJ (frozen concentrated orange juice), NYMEX sugar #11, and NYMEX sugar #14. These futures contracts will continue to clear and trade on NYMEX ClearPort®. NYMEX will continue to waive trading, transaction, and clearing fees, as previously announced, through June 2007.