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.

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ICE Futures Contracts & Markets ADV

Product Line (Futures & Options)

ADV Oct 2013

ADV Oct 2012

ADV % Change

ADV YTD Oct 2013

ADV YTD Oct 2012

ADV % Change

ICE Brent

637,234

614,954

4%

683,331

637,448

7%

ICE Gasoil

269,697

297,857

-9%

269,132

264,863

2%

ICE Other Oil (1)*

252,548

210,239

20%

258,347

207,175

25%

ICE OIL

1,159,479

1,123,049

3%

1,210,811

1,109,485

9%

ICE Natural Gas (2)*

1,054,796

1,385,075

-24%

1,184,658

1,517,164

-22%

ICE Power (3)*

734,566

510,284

44%

539,119

349,488

54%

ICE Emissions & Other (4)

42,047

48,233

-13%

41,228

39,426

5%

TOTAL ENERGY

2,990,888

3,066,641

-2%

2,975,815

3,015,564

-1%

ICE Sugar

129,719

92,863

40%

146,606

135,693

8%

ICE Other Ags (5)

113,222

120,925

-6%

126,306

121,438

4%

TOTAL AGRICULTURAL

242,941

213,788

14%

272,911

257,131

6%

ICE Equity Index (6)

107,345

98,241

9%

118,391

134,939

-12%

ICE FX (7)

20,440

20,242

1%

37,828

29,540

28%

TOTAL FINANCIALS

127,785

118,482

8%

156,220

164,479

-5%

TOTAL FUTURES & OPTIONS

3,361,613

3,398,912

-1%

3,404,947

3,437,174

-1%

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.

ICE Futures Monthly and YTD Volume

Futures & Options Products

Oct-13

Oct-12

Percent Change

YTD Oct  2013

YTD Oct  2012

Percent Change

Energy*

68,790,416

70,532,752

-2%

627,897,055

636,283,937

-1%

Agricultural

5,557,226

4,893,760

14%

57,563,045

54,233,965

6%

Financials

2,939,054

2,725,097

8%

32,962,376

34,705,016

-5%

TOTAL CONTRACTS

77,286,696

78,151,609

-1%

718,422,476

725,222,918

-1%

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

Rolling Three-Month Average Rate per Contract (RPC)

Futures & Options
Products

Three Months

Ending

Oct 2013

Three Months

Ending

Sep 2013

Three Months

Ending

Aug 2013

Energy

$1.02

$1.06

$1.05

Agricultural

$2.53

$2.49

$2.54

Financials

$0.98

$1.01

$0.95

ICE Futures & Options Open Interest


Oct 31, 2013

December 31, 2012

Energy

86,922,032

70,108,837

Agricultural

2,746,676

2,502,583

Financials

485,233

463,058

*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

October2013 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

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