ICE Expands Russell Hours
By Kristina Zurla Landgraf • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: Market Updates
Effective with the start of trading on Sunday, September 28, 2008, ICE is revising Sunday evening electronic trading hours for:
- Russell 1000® Index futures and options
- Russell 2000® Index futures and options
- All ICE FX futures and options including ICE Millions™ (coming in November)
- U.S. Dollar Index®
Trading will now begin at 5:00 p.m. Central Time, with pre-open beginning at 4:30 p.m. Previously, the markets opened at 7:00 p.m.
For all other nights, hours for these products remain unchanged with trading beginning at 7:00 p.m. and pre-open beginning at 6:30 p.m.
As of September 19, ICE Futures U.S. has the exclusive rights to offer futures and options contracts based on Russell’s industry-leading U.S. equity indexes. These products had traded at CME Group.
