ICE Reports 18% Increase in April Daily Futures Volume

ATLANTA, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global markets and clearing houses, today reported futures volume for April 2013. ICE's average daily volume (ADV) for futures and options was 3,843,846 contracts, an increase of 18% from the prior April. Total volume in April 2013 was 85 million contracts.

April 2013 Review

• ICE launched 22 new energy, environmental, freight and ferrous metal contracts on April 29.
• ICE launched two new Russell Index contracts on April 22: the Russell 2000 Growth and Russell 2000 Value Index futures.
• Daily volume records were established in RBOB Gasoline futures, Heating Oil futures, Gas Oil options and Cocoa futures.
• Monthly volume records in were established in Brent futures total volume and ADV, Heating Oil futures total volume and ADV, RBOB futures total volume, WTI options ADV, Cocoa futures, and Coffee futures.
• Open interest records were established in WTI options, Cocoa futures and the Russell 1000 Mini Growth Index, as well as several coal and natural gas contracts.

ICE Futures Contracts & Markets ADV

ICE Futures Monthly and YTD Volume

Rolling Three-Month Average Rate per Contract (RPC)

ICE Futures & Options Open Interest

• Through April 26, ICE's CDS clearing houses have cleared $40 trillion in gross notional value on a cumulative basis across 1.26 million trades with open interest of $1.6 million. ICE Clear Credit has cleared $23.4 trillion in CDS resulting in open interest of $807 billion. ICE Clear Europe has cleared €12.2 trillion ($16.4 trillion) in CDS resulting in €534 billion ($695 billion) of open interest. ICE lists more than 400 CDS instruments for clearing. A complete summary of CDS clearing can be found at: https://www.theice.com/clear_credit.jhtml
• Trading days in April 2013
  • ICE Futures Europe & U.S: 22
  • ICE Futures Canada: 22

Note: As of October 15, 2012, ICE transitioned all of the open interest in OTC cleared energy swaps contracts to futures contracts. All futures volumes in the tables above have been adjusted to treat, on a pro forma basis, the OTC cleared energy swaps contracts as futures contracts for all periods prior to October 2012.

RPC is calculated by dividing transaction revenues by contract volume, and may vary based on pricing, customer and product mix.

Historical futures volume, rate per contract and open interest data can be found at: http://ir.theice.com/supplemental.cfm

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