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Intercontinental Exchange Reports May 2026 Statistics

ATLANTA & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), one of the world’s leading providers of financial market technology and data powering global capital markets, today reported May 2026 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.

May highlights include:

  • Total average daily volume (ADV) up 14% y/y; open interest (OI) up 24% y/y, including record OI of 130.6M lots on May 25
  • Total Energy OI up 6% y/y, including record options OI of 31.2M lots on May 22
    • Brent ADV up 6% y/y; OI up 3% y/y
    • Total Natural Gas ADV up 3% y/y; OI up 10% y/y, including record OI of 47.9M lots on May 22
      • North American Gas OI up 10% y/y, including record OI of 41.4M lots on May 25
      • TTF gas ADV up 11% y/y; OI up 6% y/y
      • Asia gas ADV up 30% y/y; OI up 33% y/y
  • Total Agriculture & Metals ADV up 60% y/y; OI up 39% y/y
    • Sugar ADV up 44% y/y; OI up 23% y/y
    • Cocoa ADV up 85% y/y; OI up 56% y/y
    • Coffee ADV up 23% y/y; OI up 21% y/y
    • Cotton ADV up 151% y/y; OI up 94% y/y
  • Total Financials ADV up 37% y/y; OI up 56% y/y, including record OI of 54.5M lots on May 29
    • Total Interest Rates ADV up 38% y/y; OI up 63% y/y, including record OI of 50.8M lots on May 29
      • Euribor ADV up 29% y/y; OI up 45% y/y, including record OI of 27.1M lots on May 29
      • SONIA ADV up 34% y/y; OI up 96% y/y, including record OI of 19.6M lots on May 14
      • Gilts ADV up 47% y/y; OI up 13% y/y
    • Total Equity Indices ADV up 25% y/y
      • MSCI ADV up 39% y/y; OI up 4% y/y
  • NYSE Cash Equities ADV up 12% y/y
  • NYSE Equity Options ADV up 54% y/y

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, 2025, as filed with the SEC on February 5, 2026.

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SOURCE: Intercontinental Exchange

Contacts

ICE Investor Relations Contact:
Steve Eagerton
+1 904 854 3683
steve.eagerton@ice.com
investors@ice.com

ICE Media Contact:
Rebecca Mitchell
+44 207 065 7804
rebecca.mitchell@ice.com
media@ice.com

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Contacts

ICE Investor Relations Contact:
Steve Eagerton
+1 904 854 3683
steve.eagerton@ice.com
investors@ice.com

ICE Media Contact:
Rebecca Mitchell
+44 207 065 7804
rebecca.mitchell@ice.com
media@ice.com

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