PRESS RELEASE

NYBOT Announces New Sugar and

Coffee Floor Trading Hours

NEW YORK (March 9, 2007) – The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), a regulated subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), today announced new floor trading hours for its Coffee “C”® and Sugar No. 11sm futures and options markets. Beginning with the March 16 trading day, new floor trading hours in Coffee “C” futures and options will be from 8:30 a.m. (ET) to 12:30 p.m. (ET). Sugar No. 11 futures and options floor trading hours will commence at 8:10 a.m. (ET) and close at 12:30 p.m. (ET). Electronic trading hours will remain the same for both markets (1:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.). For complete trading schedules on all NYBOT products, go to www.nybot.com.

About IntercontinentalExchange

IntercontinentalExchange® (NYSE: ICE) operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for trading both futures and OTC energy contracts and the leading soft commodity exchange. ICE’s markets offer access to a range of contracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions, as well as agricultural commodities including cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in addition to currency and index futures and options. ICE® conducts its energy futures markets through its

U.K. regulated London-based subsidiary, ICE Futures, Europe’s leading energy exchange. ICE Futures offers liquid markets in the world’s leading oil benchmarks, Brent Crude futures and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude futures, trading nearly half of the world’s global crude futures by volume of commodity traded. ICE conducts its agricultural commodity futures and options markets through its U.S. regulated subsidiary, the New York Board of Trade®. For more than a century, the NYBOT® has provided global markets for food, fiber and financial products. ICE was added to the Russell 1000® Index on June 30, 2006. Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Houston, London, New York and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.theice.com and www.nybot.com.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 -Statements in this press release regarding IntercontinentalExchange’s business that are not historical facts are "forward­looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2007.