Platts and IntercontinentalExchange Announce Comprehensive Forward Curve Products for North American Natural Gas and Power Markets

Platts and IntercontinentalExchange Announce Comprehensive Forward Curve Products for North American Natural Gas and Power Markets

October 29, 2007

    NEW YORK, and ATLANTA, Oct. 29 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Platts, a leading energy and commodities information
provider and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:
MHP), and IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a
leading global commodity exchange operator, have agreed to
integrate market data generated by trading in ICE's
over-the-counter (OTC) markets into Platts forward curve
data products available to the North American natural gas
and electricity markets. These forward-pricing data
products will provide risk managers, planners, traders and
analysts with daily assessments of pricing in the forward
markets.
   
    "The Platts-ICE Forward Curve data products offer
the industry a comprehensive and independent view of
forward pricing in the natural gas and power markets in
North America," said Platts President Victoria Chu
Pao. "By combining the data already collected by
Platts editors with a rich stream of additional
transactional data provided by ICE, we now offer the
industry forward curve products with a depth and breadth
unparalleled in the marketplace today." 
    
    The enhancement of the natural gas and electricity
forward curve products is in response to rising industry
demand for independent, market-based forward curve price
assessments based on the fullest range of market data
available. Platts, with nearly a century of experience
reporting energy and price information, has been producing
forward curve price assessments in a variety of energy
markets since 2001. ICE, the leading electronic OTC energy
marketplace, offers trading and risk management in hundreds
of products, resulting in a rich set of data to augment the
Platts data.
   
    "Platts' reputation for quality and accuracy
within energy markets made them a natural choice to develop
and deliver enhanced North American forward curve
products," said Jeffrey C. Sprecher, ICE chairman and
chief executive officer. "As a neutral and liquid
source of market information, we are able to support the
coverage of these innovative products. The Platts-ICE
Forward Curves will provide the marketplace with a complete
and independent set of curves tailored to meet the growing
risk management needs of the trading community." 

    For more information on the products, visit
http://www.risk.platts.com . 

    About Platts: 

    Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:
MHP), is a leading global provider of energy and metals
information. With nearly a century of business experience,
Platts serves customers across more than 150 countries.
From 14 offices worldwide, Platts serves the oil, natural
gas, electricity, emissions, nuclear power, coal,
petrochemical and metals markets. Platts' real time news,
pricing, analytical services, and conferences help markets
operate with transparency and efficiency. Traders, risk
managers, analysts, and industry leaders depend upon Platts
to help them make better trading and investment decisions.
Additional information is available at
http://www.platts.com . 
 
    About The McGraw-Hill Companies:

    Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP)
is a leading global information services provider meeting
worldwide needs in the financial services, education and
business information markets through leading brands such as
Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, BusinessWeek
and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more
than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2006 were $6.3
billion. Additional information is available at
http://www.mcgraw-hill.com . 

    About IntercontinentalExchange:

    IntercontinentalExchange(R) (NYSE: ICE) operates global
commodity and financial products marketplaces, including the
world's leading electronic energy markets and soft commodity
exchange. ICE's diverse futures and over-the-counter (OTC)
markets offer contracts based on crude oil and refined
products, natural gas, power and emissions, as well as
agricultural commodities including canola, cocoa, coffee,
cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in
addition to foreign currency and equity index futures and
options. ICE(R) conducts its energy futures markets through
ICE Futures Europe(sm), its London-based futures exchange,
which offers the world's leading oil benchmarks and trades
nearly half of the world's global crude futures in its
markets. ICE conducts its soft commodity, foreign exchange
and equity index markets through its U.S. futures exchange,
ICE Futures U.S.(sm), which provides global futures and
options markets, as well as clearing services through ICE
Clear U.S.(sm) In August 2007, ICE acquired the Winnipeg
Commodity Exchange Inc., the leading agricultural futures
exchange in Canada. ICE's state-of-the-art electronic
trading platform brings market access and transparency to
participants in more than 50 countries. ICE was added to
the Russell 1000(R) Index in June 2006 and the S&P 500
Index in September 2007.  Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE
also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Dublin, Houston,
London, New York, Singapore and Winnipeg. For more
information, please visit http://www.theice.com .

    Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 - Statements in this press
release regarding IntercontinentalExchange's business that
are not historical facts are "forward-looking
statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For
a discussion of such 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, 2006, and the Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31 and
June 30, 2007, each as filed with the SEC on February 26,
2007, May 4, 2007 and July 27, 2007, respectively.  




    For more information, please contact:

    Platts 
     US -- Kathleen Tanzy 
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]
     
     Asia -- Casey Yew
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]
     
     Europe -- Shiona Ramage
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]
               
    ICE 
     US -- Kelly L. Loeffler       
     Tel:    [phone]        
     Email:  [e-mail]