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ICE Reports Record Market Activity as Customers Respond to Middle East Impacts
ATLANTA & NEW YORK & LONDON & AMSTERDAM, March 27, 2026--Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), one of the world’s leading providers of financial market technology and data powering global capital markets, today reported on the trading activity across its global derivatives markets, as well as in equities trading at the New York Stock Exchange, as customers respond to events in the Middle East beginning February 28, 2026.
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