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Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Cotton experts will discuss strategies for hedging in volatile markets and provide a farm bill update and crop outlook at the Cotton Roundtable, Friday, July 25, 7:30 a.m. Central time, at the Intercontinental Exchange in New York City.
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Hard Assets Investor submits: IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) has appeared from virtually out of nowhere to become one of the major players in global futures exchanges and over-the-counter [OTC] markets. ICE specializes in electronic trading platforms and has certainly done its part in making all those colorful jackets worn by traders on open-outcry floors nearly obsolete. In 10 short years,...
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
The US will drive oil trading overseas if it is too heavy-handed in regulating energy futures markets, according to Jeff Sprecher, chief executive of the InterContinental Exchange, the Atlanta-based electronic commodities exchange
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Forbes (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Measures to curb oil trades on the InterContinental Exchange won't change much.
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
ICE Futures Europe, the London energy exchange operated by the InterContinental Exchange of the US, has received agreements from almost all of its members to start using ICE's clearing house and abandon their clearer LCH.Clearnet, say people familiar with the situation
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Intercontinental Exchange may be forced to limit the size of U.S. oil trades on its London energy market, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Bart Chilton said Friday.
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
InterContinental Exchange, which operates energy derivatives markets in the US and UK, announced a $625m deal to buy Creditex, an inter-dealer credit derivatives broker, significantly intensifying competition in the credit-default swap market
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Intercontinental Exchange said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Creditex Group Inc for about $625 million. Creditex is provides execution and processing services for credit default swaps (CDSs). The transaction price includes $565 million of ICE stock, and $60 million cash. Ice said it expects the deal to contribute to earnings in 12 to 18 months. In a separate announcement...
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Data Center Knowledge (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
A power outage at the data center for The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) led to a suspension of all commodities trading on ICE Thursday morning. The power failure in the company's primary data center in Chicago began at 10:30 a.m. ET and lasted for nearly an hour, ICE spokeswoman Kelly Loeffer... Read more at our web site
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The Intercontinental Exchange, the electronic commodities exchange, was forced to completely shut its trading platform on Thursday morning due to a power failure
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Business Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Congress is considering a bill that will apply CFTC regulations on oil futures speculators to a London based futures trading market -- the Intercontinental-Exchange (ICE). There are two problems: First, any regulations of this type will not affect international market...
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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is coming up fast - the schedule of events is here, and registration is here. There are a ton of great talks, like this one from Paul Baumann: GemKit is an open-source tool that was first created by GemStone Professional Services. Intercontinental Exchange has fixed and enhanced the original Store port of GemKit and is releasing these improvements to the community. Anyone...
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ICKPLUS (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
No. 13: Intercontinental Exchange Industry: Specialized Finance Sales: $574.3 million Net Income: $240.6 million Chief Executive Jeff Sprecher built what was once a money-losing cooperative created by small utilities to swap energy during peak hours into an online energy exchange backed by the likes of Goldman Sachs and British Petroleum. Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange —known as ICE —now handles...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- InterContinental Exchange said Friday that its average daily volume in futures during April rose 14%, and OTC commissions increased 96% over April 2007. Total average daily volume for all ICE Futures contracts reached 863,325 in April 2008 compared to 755,474 in April 2007. Average daily commissions for ICE's global OTC business nearly doubled to $1,268,742. Market Pulse...
