NYMEX Holdings (NMX) Reports Increase in Daily Volume

NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced that average daily volume was 1.712 million contracts for April 2008, a 22% increase from 1.398 million contracts per day in April 2007.

NYMEX electronic volume on the CME Globex electronic trading platform averaged 772,567 contracts per day for April 2008, representing a 30% increase over 594,311 contracts per day in April 2007 electronic volume. NYMEX floor-traded energy futures and options averaged 222,466 contracts per day for April 2008.

COMEX electronic volume on CME Globex averaged 169,248 contracts per day for April 2008, and represented a 78% increase over 95,338 contracts per day in April 2007 electronic volume. COMEX floor-traded average daily volume was 39,037 contracts for April 2008.

Average daily volume on NYMEX ClearPort was 428,625 contracts for April 2008, compared to 318,917 contracts for April 2007, representing a 34% increase. The remaining volume of 80,056 trades per day consisted of other transactions which include position transfers and exchanges.

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