ICE Reports October Daily Futures Volume

ATLANTA, Nov. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global markets and clearing houses, today reported futures volume for October 2013. ICE's average daily volume (ADV) for futures and options was 3.36 million contracts, a decrease of 1% from the prior October. Year to date through October, average daily volume decreased 1% over the prior year to date period to 3.40 million contracts.

ICE 3Q13 Earnings Call

• ICE will announce third quarter 2013 financial results on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 and will hold an earnings conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET that day. A live audio webcast of the earnings call will be available on the company's website at www.theice.com under About ICE/Investors & Media. Participants may also listen via telephone by dialing 877-674-6420 if calling from the United States, or 708-290-1370 if dialing from outside of the United States. Telephone participants should call 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. The call will be archived on the company's website for replay.

Note: Figures may not foot due to rounding.

(1) "ICE Other Oil" includes Global Oil Products, WTI, Heating Oil, RBOB Gasoline and Middle East Sour Crude. Excludes Daily Brent Bullet contracts.
(2) "ICE Natural Gas" includes North American, UK and European Natural Gas.
(3) "ICE Power" includes North American, UK and European Power.
(4) "ICE Emissions & Other" includes all emissions contracts, Freight, Coal and Iron Ore and Uranium.
(5) "ICE Other Ags" includes Cocoa, Coffee "C", Cotton No. 2, Orange Juice, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Barley and Canola.
(6) "ICE Equity Index" includes the Russell 2000^®, Russell 1000^®, and the credit index futures contracts.
(7) "ICE FX" includes futures and options for the U.S. Dollar Index and foreign exchange.
*Historical energy volume has been adjusted to include new energy futures contracts.

*Historical energy volume has been adjusted to include new energy futures contracts.

*Energy OI excluding power contracts at the end of October 2013 and December 2012 were 35,993,208  and 36,105,090, respectively.

Credit Derivatives Transaction and Clearing

• Through October 26, ICE has cleared $46 trillion in gross notional value on a cumulative basis across 1.5 million trades with open interest of $1.5 trillion. Buy-side clearing totaled $3.2 trillion at ICE Clear Credit since the December 2009 launch. ICE lists approximately 400 CDS instruments for clearing. A complete summary of CDS clearing can be found at: https://www.theice.com/clear_credit.jhtml

October 2013 Review

• ICE announced its acquisition of NYSE Euronext would be delayed to allow additional time for relevant European regulators and ministries to process approvals.
• ICE Clear Europe announced the successful launch of client clearing for CDS with five clients actively clearing trades on the first day.
• ICE Endex natural gas and power futures and options began trading and clearing on the ICE platform and through ICE Clear Europe on October 7.  
• ICE Swap Trade, ICE's CFTC-registered Swap Execution Facility (SEF), launched with trading activity in the energy and CDS markets.
• Total monthly and average daily volume records were established in Canola futures and options, and Richard Bay and Rotterdam Coal options. Monthly volume records were set in Heating Oil futures, Newcastle Coal futures, WTI options and the U.S. environmental suite of products.
• Open interest records were established in Low Sulphur Gasoil futures, Emissions futures, Cocoa futures, ICE Newcastle Coal futures and Richard Bay and Rotterdam Coal options, Canola options and the U.S. environmental suite of products.

• Trading days in October 2013
  • ICE Futures Europe & U.S: 23
  • 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

About IntercontinentalExchange

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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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