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Intercontinental Exchange Reports June Statistics

By: via Business Wire

Record Q2 total Futures & Options ADV, including records across Global Commodities, Energy and Financials

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of technology and data, today reported June 2025 trading volume and related revenue statistics, which can be viewed on the company’s investor relations website at https://ir.theice.com/ir-resources/supplemental-information in the Monthly Statistics Tracking spreadsheet.

“The record traded volume across ICE’s markets during the first half of 2025 - including record traded volumes across energy and interest rate derivatives - highlights the importance of ICE’s benchmark contracts and the deep liquidity these offer to customers. This liquidity increases trading efficiency for all participants, whilst bringing price discovery our customers trust. We thank all of our customers for continuing to choose ICE to hedge their exposure,” said Ben Jackson, President of ICE.

June highlights include:

  • Total average daily volume (ADV) up 21% y/y; open interest (OI) up 9% y/y, including record OI of 105.6M lots on June 12
  • Energy ADV up 28% y/y; OI up 4% y/y
    • Record Oil ADV up 43% y/y; OI up 16% y/y, including record OI of 17.6M lots on June 24
      • Record Brent ADV up 57% y/y; OI up 23% y/y, including record OI of 7.3M lots on June 23
      • WTI* ADV up 12% y/y; OI up 9% y/y
        • Midland WTI ADV up 41% y/y
      • Record Gasoil ADV up 33% y/y
      • Other Crude & Refined products ADV up 23% y/y; OI up 15% y/y
        • Dubai ADV up 42% y/y; OI up 12% y/y
        • Murban ADV up 9% y/y; OI up 39% y/y
    • Total Natural Gas ADV up 7% y/y
      • TTF Gas ADV up 55% y/y
      • Record Asia Gas ADV up 50% y/y; OI up 40% y/y, including record OI of 189k lots on June 12
    • Total Environmentals OI up 8% y/y
  • Financials ADV up 14% y/y; OI up 27% y/y
    • Interest Rates ADV up 20% y/y; OI up 35% y/y
      • Euribor ADV up 14% y/y; OI up 23% y/y
      • SONIA ADV up 22% y/y; OI up 44% y/y, including record OI of 10.1M lots on June 11
      • Gilts OI up 63% y/y
    • MSCI OI up 8% y/y
  • NYSE Cash Equities ADV up 43% y/y
  • NYSE Equity Options ADV up 2% y/y

Second quarter highlights include:

  • Record total ADV up 26% y/y
  • Record Energy ADV up 27% y/y
    • Record Oil ADV up 34% y/y
      • Record Brent ADV up 37% y/y
      • Record WTI* ADV up 31% y/y
        • Record Midland WTI ADV up 111% y/y
      • Gasoil ADV up 29% y/y
      • Record Other Crude & Refined products ADV up 25% y/y
        • Dubai ADV up 44% y/y
        • Murban ADV up 54% y/y
    • Natural Gas ADV up 16% y/y
      • North American Gas ADV up 12% y/y
      • TTF Gas ADV up 27% y/y
      • Record Asia Gas ADV up 31% y/y
    • Total Environmentals ADV up 5% y/y
  • Sugar ADV up 4% y/y
  • Cotton ADV up 16% y/y
  • Record Financials ADV up 30% y/y
    • Record Interest Rates ADV up 34% y/y
      • Euribor ADV up 33% y/y
      • Record SONIA ADV up 34% y/y
    • MSCI ADV up 18% y/y
  • NYSE Cash Equities ADV up 47% y/y
  • NYSE Equity Options ADV up 5% y/y

* Combined OI and volumes of WTI and ICE HOU

About Intercontinental Exchange

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.

Trademarks of ICE and/or its affiliates include Intercontinental Exchange, ICE, ICE block design, NYSE and New York Stock Exchange. Information regarding additional trademarks and intellectual property rights of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and/or its affiliates is located here. Key Information Documents for certain products covered by the EU Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation can be accessed on the relevant exchange website under the heading “Key Information Documents (KIDS).”

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 -- Statements in this press release regarding ICE's business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see ICE's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors in ICE's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as filed with the SEC on February 6, 2025.

Category: Corporate

SOURCE: Intercontinental Exchange

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