IntercontinentalExchange Sets New Daily Record For ICE NYH RBOB Futures

ATLANTA, Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global markets and clearing houses, reported record daily volume in the ICE NYH RBOB Gasoline futures contract. ICE NYH RBOB Gasoline futures traded 29,559 contracts on Feb. 7. The new record is more than 10,000 above the previous daily record of 18,832 contracts on June 26, 2012.

Additionally, ICE Brent Crude futures and ICE WTI Crude options both set open interest records on Feb. 7 of 1,535,748 and 737,719 contracts respectively.

ICE NYH RBOB Gasoline futures trade 22 hours a day, from 8 p.m. through 6 p.m. Eastern time the next day, and from 1 a.m. through 11 p.m. London time.  The contract is sized at 42,000 gallons and priced in U.S. dollars and cents per gallon.  It trades for 12 consecutive months at a time and is based on Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending for delivery in New York Harbor.

About IntercontinentalExchangeIntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) is a leading operator of regulated exchanges and clearing houses serving the risk management needs of global markets for agricultural, credit, currency, emissions, energy and equity index products. ICE serves customers in more than 70 countries. www.theice.com 

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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 additional 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, 2012, as filed with the SEC on February 6, 2013.

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