NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYMEX), (NYSE: NMX), the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced today that it has filed a prospectus supplement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with an underwritten secondary offering of 7,000,000 shares of common stock.  Certain investment entities affiliated with General Atlantic LLC have granted the underwriters the option to purchase an additional 1,050,000 shares to cover over-allotments. 

In connection with  the secondary offering, Banc of America Securities LLC has agreed to purchase directly from the selling stockholders at the public offering price set forth in the prospectus supplement, but not in excess of $125 per share, up to $500 million of our common stock. The number of shares to be purchased by Banc of America Securities LLC, if any, will be determined by  NYMEX in  its sole discretion, upon the execution of the underwriting agreement, and will represent an amount equal to the difference, if any, between the number of shares initially offered by the selling stockholders  in the secondary offering and the number of shares sold in  the secondary offering.

 JPMorgan, Banc of America Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch & Co. have been named Joint Book-Running Managers.  These filings, as well as all Company filings, can be found at www.sec.gov.

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An automatically effective shelf registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  This notice shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offering of the shares will be made only by means of a prospectus and a related prospectus supplement.

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