Thursday, 11 September 2008

Russell 2000 Record on ICE

ICE Futures U.S.(TM), announced that its mini Russell 2000(R) Index futures contract set a third consecutive day of record volume and open interest on Wednesday, September 10. The new daily volume high of 150,883 contracts yesterday more than tripled the previous day's record of 36,230. Also on Wednesday, ICE U.S. Dollar Index(R) (USDX(R)) futures posted a new daily volume high of 47,545 contracts, surpassing the previous record established on March 13, 2008.

Beginning next Friday, September 19, Russell Index futures and options on futures contracts will for the first time trade exclusively on ICE. Over $4.4 trillion in assets and more than 99% of small cap institutional assets are benchmarked to Russell indexe

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