ATLANTA, March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, has been named to the "Wired 40," a prestigious list published annually by Wired Magazine of the 40 "most innovative companies in the world."

Published in Wired's March 2007 issue, the 10th annual Wired 40 list placed ICE as number 26, ahead of technology giants including Comcast, Yahoo, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. ICE is the only financial marketplace that garnered a spot on the 2007 Wired 40 list. "As the leading futures exchange for fossil fuels, electric power, and even emissions, the ICE is hot," the magazine stated.

In describing its selection process, Wired has said: "What makes a company wired? We start by looking for the basics: strategic vision, global reach, killer technology. But that's not enough. To land a spot on our annual Wired 40 list, a business also needs the X-factor -- a hunger for new ideas and an impatience to put them into practice."

In introducing this year's list of winners, Wired described the group: "They're masters of innovation and technology, global thinkers that dominate their industries and point the way to the future."

Wired Magazine reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics. The complete story is available at: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/wired40_list.html.

About IntercontinentalExchange

IntercontinentalExchange(R) (NYSE: ICE) operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for trading both futures and OTC energy contracts and the leading soft commodity exchange. ICE's markets offer access to a range of contracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions, as well as agricultural commodities including cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in addition to currency and index futures and options. ICE(R) conducts its energy futures markets through its U.K. regulated London-based subsidiary, ICE Futures, Europe's leading energy exchange. ICE Futures offers liquid markets in the world's leading oil benchmarks, Brent Crude futures and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude futures, trading nearly half of the world's global crude futures by volume of commodity traded. ICE conducts its agricultural commodity futures and options markets through its U.S. regulated subsidiary, the New York Board of Trade(R). For more than a century, the NYBOT(R) has provided global markets for food, fiber and financial products. ICE was added to the Russell 1000(R) Index on June 30, 2006. Headquartered in Atlanta, ICE also has offices in Calgary, Chicago, Houston, London, New York and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.theice.com and www.nybot.com.

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