ICE Futures U.S. Inc (formerly the New York Board of Trade), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange announced that it will observe moments of silence on Tuesday, September 11, 2007, marking the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The names of the members of the Exchange who were lost that day will be read in a brief ceremony on the trading floor at 2:45 p.m.
Open outcry trading will cease for one minute at 8:46 a.m. and 9:03 a.m., the times an airplane crashed into each tower, and again at 9:59 a.m. and 10:29 a.m., marking the times that each tower collapsed.
It is requested that all market participants refrain from trading electronically on the ICE electronic trading platform during these moments of silence in memory of the personnel affiliated with the Exchange who died that day.
Those who will be remembered are: • Dennis Foo (member of COMEX Division of NYMEX and ICE Futures U.S.) • Steven Furman (former NYMEX member) • Doug Gardner (ICE Futures U.S. member) • Joseph Heller (COMEX member) • Joseph Holland (NYMEX member) • Robert Hussa (former COMEX member) • Joseph Kellet (NYMEX member) • Neil Leavy (former COMEX member) • James McAlary, Jr. (NYMEX member) • Thomas McGinnis (NYMEX member) • Mark Motroni (member of NYMEX and ICE Futures U.S.) • David Nelson (COMEX member) • Edward Oliver (NYMEX member) • Robert O'Shea (NYMEX member)