ICIS Fertilizer Price Assessments to be Used by CME Group's Clearing Services for Swap Futures

LONDON, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

ICIS, a trusted provider of benchmark pricing information and news to the global fertilizer, petrochemical and energy markets, is delighted to announce that ICIS is supplying independent price assessments for use in the CME Group's clearing services for four new fertilizer swap futures.

The price assessments produced by ICIS will be used by the CME Group to financially settle contracts. ICIS is renowned for offering impartial and reliable pricing information, news and market commentary to key players in the fertilizer, petrochemical and energy markets. Our fertilizer prices and market intelligence is published in our weekly report, The Market.  ICIS also publishes outlook information and detailed analysis for key fertilizer commodities which can be used to build and assess trends.  The Outlook reports are published monthly.

The CME group fertilizer swap futures which ICIS is providing price assessments for are:

• Urea (Granular) FOB NOLA Swap Future
• UAN FOB Us Gulf Coast Swap Future
• DAP FOB Tampa Swap Future
• DAP FOB NOLA Swap Future

"ICIS is pleased to provide price assessments to the CME Group, as we believe the swap futures will provide an excellent tool to the fertilizer industry to manage fertilizer price volatility", said ICIS Head of Fertilizers, Antonella Harrison.

For details about our fertilizer pricing information, please visit http://www.icis.com/staticpages/fertilizerportfolio.htm

For more information about ICIS, the pricing intelligence we offer, and the commodities that we cover, please visit http://www.icis.com or contact:

About ICIS

ICIS is well established as a global provider of benchmark price and news intelligence for the chemical, oil, fertilizer and energy industries, assisting companies in global commodity markets to improve their revenues and profits by providing high quality, timely, commercially useful information, business leads and brand positioning across the world.

ICIS' global team of more than 500 people based in London, Houston, Singapore, New York, Washington, Shanghai, Moscow and Mumbai strives to deliver definitive global chemical, fertilizer & energy market intelligence.

To find out more visit http://www.icis.com

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