NEW YORK, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ICE Futures U.S., Inc. (formerly the New York Board of Trade), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange , announced today that, effective at 8:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, September 6, 2007, it will extend the electronic trading hours for its Russell Indexes and US Dollar Index(R) (USDX) futures contracts to 6:00 p.m. ET. Currently the electronic trading day for these contracts ends at 4:15 p.m. ET.
With the extended hours, the electronic trading day for the Russell Indexes and the USDX futures contracts will commence at 8:00 p.m. ET on the business day prior to the trading day and end at 6:00 p.m. ET on the trading day, providing for a 22-hour electronic trading day.
Floor trading hours remain unchanged and daily settlement prices will continue to be determined at the end of the respective floor trading sessions, at 3:00 p.m. ET for the USDX and at 4:15 p.m. ET for the Russell Indexes.
Access to ICE Futures U.S. Russell Indexes and USDX contracts is available through WebICE, the web-based proprietary front end to ICE's trading system, as well as proprietary systems offered by brokerage firms and through approved independent software vendors (ISVs). More information about trading ICE's Russell Indexes and USDX futures on the ICE platform can be found by visiting the Exchange homepage at http://www.theice.com/.
About IntercontinentalExchange
IntercontinentalExchange(R) operates global commodity and financial products marketplaces, including the world's leading electronic energy markets and soft commodity exchange. ICE's diverse futures and over- the-counter (OTC) markets offer contracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions, as well as agricultural commodities including canola, cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in addition to foreign currency and equity index futures and options. ICE(R) conducts its energy futures markets through ICE Futures Europe(R), its London-based futures exchange, which offers the world's leading oil benchmarks and trades nearly half of the world's global crude futures in its markets. ICE conducts its soft commodity, foreign exchange and equity index markets through its U.S. futures exchange, ICE Futures U.S.(R), which provides global futures and options markets, as well as clearing services through ICE Clear U.S.(sm) In August 2007, ICE acquired the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, the leading agricultural futures exchange in Canada. ICE's state- of-the-art electronic trading platform brings market access and transparency to participants in more than 50 countries. ICE was added to the Russell 1000(R) Index in June 2006. Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Dublin, Houston, London, New York, Singapore and Winnipeg. For more information, please visit http://www.theice.com/.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 - Statements in this press release regarding IntercontinentalExchange's business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see ICE's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors in ICE's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31 and June 30, 2007, each as filed with the SEC on February 26, 2007, May 4, 2007 and July 27, 2007, respectively.
