DJ ICE Temporarily Adjusts Hours For Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa Trade

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–ICE Futures U.S. is temporarily pushing back the start of electronic trading for world sugar, arabica coffee and cocoa futures and options by one hour.

The temporary change will last from the start of Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. on March 14 through the start of British Summertime on March 28, ICE said in an exchange notice posted Tuesday.

ICE makes adjustments to opening times each year when seasonal time changes in the U.S. and Europe don\’t occur at the same time.

During trading days that week, electronic No. 11 sugar and arabica \”C\” coffee futures and options will open at 4:30 a.m. EDT (8:30GMT). Other trading times for these commodities remain unchanged, including pre-open, daily settlement, floor options trading hours
and the close of the trading session.

Cocoa futures and options contracts will open for electronic trading at 5 a.m. EDT (9 GMT). The daily settlement window for cocoa futures will be pushed back one hour to 12:48 p.m.-12:50 p.m. EDT (4:48 GMT-4:50 GMT). Trade-At-Settlement contracts will also be
extended to the end of that settlement window.

Trading hours for all other contracts will remain unchanged, ICE said.
-By Holly Henschen, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-2138; holly.henschen@dowjones.com