ICE Sees Highest Commodities Trading Volume Day in its History

LONDON & NEW YORK & AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of technology and data, today announced that on Friday, January 10, 2025, ICE reported the highest commodities volume day in its history with a record 9.1 million futures and options traded, including a record 8.7 million energy futures and options, and a record 6.1 million oil futures and options.

On January 10, 2025, ICE saw trading records across several of ICE’s oil benchmarks, including 999,000 Gasoil futures and options, 905,700 ICE WTI (Cushing) futures and options, 214,200 ICE Dubai (Platts) futures and 104,400 ICE Murban futures.

“The network of markets which ICE has carefully built for its customers over the last two decades has created a truly global commodity platform so that customers can manage their risk exposure at precisely the areas they need, benefitting from the liquidity we offer, to enable transparent price discovery and execution,” said Trabue Bland, SVP of Futures Markets, ICE.

ICE offers customers the most liquid markets to trade energy derivatives. ICE’s global oil complex covers over 800 futures and options contracts underpinned by the global benchmarks Brent and Gasoil. Open interest across ICE’s global commodities complex is up 11% year-over-year at 63.2 million contracts with average daily trading activity up 26% year-to-date.

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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks that connect people to opportunity. We provide financial technology and data services across major asset classes helping our customers access mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and efficiency. ICE’s futures, equity, and options exchanges – including the New York Stock Exchange – and clearing houses help people invest, raise capital and manage risk. We offer some of the world’s largest markets to trade and clear energy and environmental products. Our fixed income, data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms that help our customers streamline processes and capitalize on opportunities. At ICE Mortgage Technology, we are transforming U.S. housing finance, from initial consumer engagement through loan production, closing, registration and the long-term servicing relationship. Together, ICE transforms, streamlines and automates industries to connect our customers to opportunity.

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Source: Intercontinental Exchange