IntercontinentalExchange, the Atlanta based leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, announced that electronic trading in key index futures contracts offered by the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) will begin on Friday, June 15, 2007. The contracts include the U.S. Dollar Index(R) (USDX) and the Russell 1000(R) full-size and mini-sized indexes listed at NYBOT. Trading hours are from 8:00 p.m. ET through 4:15 p.m. ET each trading day. These futures contracts, as well as options on these futures, currently trade in the NYBOT floor-based markets.

The products have been available since March 16 in a test environment to allow independent software vendors (ISVs), market data vendors, brokers, algorithmic traders and other registered market participants time to complete system connectivity and functionality testing.

"The addition of these contracts to the ICE electronic trading platform is an important step in unlocking the value of these benchmark products," said Tom Farley, NYBOT President and Chief Operating Officer. "We've seen strong interest in trading these index products electronically. The Dollar Index is a widely referenced benchmark for global currency moves relative to the U.S. Dollar, and the Russell 1000(R) contract is an attractive tool for managing exposure to the U.S. stock market. These are just two of the new electronic trading opportunities in financial products that we will be offering over the next few months."

ICE successfully introduced side-by-side trading for NYBOT's soft commodity contracts on February 2, 2007. Contracts offered include futures based on cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice and sugar. Today, approximately 60% of NYBOT's soft commodity futures contracts are traded electronically on the ICE platform.

Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Houston, London, New York and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.theice.com and www.nybot.com.