NYMEX Sets Daily Volume Records for RBOB Gasoline Futures on CME Globex(R)

NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Mercantile Exchange,Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), today announcedthat it set daily volume records yesterday for its RBOB gasoline futurescontract traded on the CME Globex electronic trading platform. A total of 137,094 contracts traded, exceeding the 111,751 contractstraded on July 12, 2007. NYMEX launched its physically settled futures contracts for trading onCME Globex during regular open outcry trading hours on September 5, 2006,following its initial offering of financially settled, standard-sized andNYMEX miNY energy futures contracts for trading on CME Globex on June 12,2006. On December 4, 2006, NYMEX introduced full-sized and COMEX miNYmetals futures contracts for side by side trading. Options trading launchedon CME Globex on June 25. Access to electronic trading of NYMEX energy and metals products isavailable virtually 24 hours a day on CME Globex. For more information, go to http://www.nymexoncmeglobex.com/. Forward Looking and Cautionary Statements This press release may contain forward-looking statements within themeaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, with respect toour future performance, operating results, strategy, and other futureevents. Such statements generally include words such as could, can,anticipate, believe, expect, seek, pursue, and similar words and terms, inconnection with any discussion of future results. Forward-lookingstatements involve a number of assumptions, risks, and uncertainties, anyof which may cause actual results to differ materially from theanticipated, estimated, or projected results referenced in forward-lookingstatements. In particular, the forward-looking statements of NYMEXHoldings, Inc., and its subsidiaries are subject to the following risks anduncertainties: the success and timing of new futures contracts andproducts; changes in political, economic, or industry conditions; theunfavorable resolution of material legal proceedings; the impact and timingof technological changes and the adequacy of intellectual propertyprotection; the impact of legislative and regulatory actions, includingwithout limitation, actions by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission;and terrorist activities and international hostilities, which may affectthe general economy as well as oil and other commodity markets. We assumeno obligation to update or supplement our forward-looking statements.