The New York Mercantile Exchange will observe moments of silence on Tuesday, September 11, 2007, marking the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The names of the members of the Exchange community who were lost that day that will be read in a brief ceremony on the NYMEX trading floor at 2:45PM.

Open outcry trading will cease for one minute at 8:46AM and 9:03AM, the times an airplane crashed into each tower and again at 9:59AM and 10:29AM, marking the times that each tower collapsed.

It is requested that all market participants refrain from trading NYMEX and COMEX products on CME Globex® and NYMEX Clearport® during these moments of silence in memory of the personnel affiliated with NYMEX and ICE Futures USA, formerly the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), who died that day.

The individuals who will be remembered include:

Dennis Foo (member of COMEX Division of NYMEX and NYBOT)
Steven Furman (former NYMEX member)
Doug Gardner (NYBOT member)
Joseph Heller (COMEX member)
Joseph Holland (NYMEX member)
Robert Hussa (former COMEX member)
Joseph Kellet (NYMEX member)
Neil Leavy (former COMEX member)
James McAlary, Jr. (NYMEX member)
Thomas McGinnis (NYMEX member)
Mark Motroni (member of NYMEX and NYBOT)
David Nelson (COMEX member)
Edward Oliver (NYMEX member)
Robert O’Shea (NYMEX member)
Patrick O’Shea (member of COMEX and NYBOT)
Mark Petrocelli (NYMEX Brent permit holder)
Edward Ryan (former member of NYMEX and COMEX)
Joseph Shea (NYBOT member)
Paul Skrzypek (former NYMEX member)
Carlton Valvo (former NYMEX member)
Elkin Yuen (NYMEX member)
Evan Baron (Carr Futures)
Michael Canty (Carr Futures)
Christopher Dincuff (Carr Futures)
Brendan Dolan (Carr Futures)
Karen Klitzman (former NYMEX vice president of research)
Damian Meehan (Carr Futures)
Peter Raimondi (Carr Futures)
Lonny Stone (Carr Futures)
Scott Timmes (Carr Futures)
Christopher Traina (Carr Futures)
Alfred Vukosa (former NYMEX staff)

The New York Mercantile Exchange moved into its World Financial Center headquarters in July 1997 from its previous home at 4 World Trade Center. After September 11, the Exchange was the first in New York to reopen trading on its electronic trading system on September 14, 2001, and the first business to reopen west of Ground Zero, when it resumed floor trading on September 17.