Introduction to Personal Investing

History

Why is ICE so important to the investing community around the world?

ICE is so important to the investing community around the world because now, one-third of the world’s global cash trading flows through its systems; it trades more than 50% of the world’s crude and refined oil futures contracts; it lists 90% of the Dow Jones Industrial 1000 and 78% of S&P 500 listed companies; it introduced 120 Initial Public Offering (IPO) transactions, raising $36.9 billion in 2012; and it currently captures 53% market share of all technology IPOs through the third quarter of 2013.