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Company snapshot — Intercontinental Exchange Inc

ICE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
ICE runs exchanges and clearing houses for derivatives and securities, supplies fixed income pricing, reference data and indices, and offers a mortgage technology platform used across the US home-loan process. Customers span financial institutions, corporations and government bodies. It is headquartered in Atlanta.
Where it sits in the stack
ICE carries no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack the diary tracks there. Within our wider universe it belongs to the Financial Services sector, in the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry, alongside other market-infrastructure and data names.
Who it is priced against
There is no set peer group from our index work; the comparison the market draws is with CME Group as the other large exchange-and-clearing operator with a data business attached.
Why Closelook tracks it
ICE holds a seat in the S&P 500 but no Rubin or Halo seat, and it does not yet carry a Closelook score. Our glossary entry on option-adjusted spread and a Daily Pulse note both cite its ICE BofA bond indices as the benchmark series for corporate credit.
What the diary watches
Whether the ICE BofA spread ladder across maturities keeps narrowing or widening, since the diary reads that move as a signal on how credit markets are pricing risk.

Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ICE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE)?

Intercontinental Exchange Inc trades as ICE on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is ICE in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Intercontinental Exchange Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does ICE trade against its moving averages?

Recovery attempt under the 200-day: Trades +0.8% vs the 50-day and -1.1% vs the 200-day average, 12.6% below the 52-week high and +25.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Intercontinental Exchange Inc do?

ICE runs exchanges and clearing houses for derivatives and securities, supplies fixed income pricing, reference data and indices, and offers a mortgage technology platform used across the US home-loan process. Customers span financial institutions, corporations and government bodies. It is headquartered in Atlanta. There is no set peer group from our index work; the comparison the market draws is with CME Group as the other large exchange-and-clearing operator with a data business attached.

Where does Intercontinental Exchange Inc sit in the AI build-out?

ICE carries no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack the diary tracks there. Within our wider universe it belongs to the Financial Services sector, in the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry, alongside other market-infrastructure and data names. ICE holds a seat in the S&P 500 but no Rubin or Halo seat, and it does not yet carry a Closelook score. Our glossary entry on option-adjusted spread and a Daily Pulse note both cite its ICE BofA bond indices as the benchmark series for corporate credit.

Where has Closelook written about Intercontinental Exchange Inc?

Intercontinental Exchange Inc appears in 2 Closelook pieces, most recently Daily Pulse: Instruments for the Bond Verdict (2026-08-19); Glossary: Option-Adjusted Spread (OAS). What Closelook said most recently: The ICE BofA option-adjusted spreads through 17 August say the same thing: an investment-grade ladder of 0.49% at 1–3 years, 1.00% at 7–10 years and 1.02% at 15 years and beyond, emerging-market corporates at 1.38%, euro high yield at… (Daily Pulse, 2026-08-19). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ICE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 2 pieces · newest: Daily Pulse, “Instruments for the Bond Verdict” (2026-08-19)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where ICE appears in the diary — 2 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

101 and glossary

  • Option-Adjusted Spread (OAS)GlossaryThe two index series everyone watches are the ICE BofA US Corporate index (investment grade) and the US High Yield index.

Dailies

  • Instruments for the Bond VerdictDaily Pulse · 19 Aug 2026The ICE BofA option-adjusted spreads through 17 August say the same thing: an investment-grade ladder of 0.49% at 1–3 years, 1.00% at 7–10 years and 1.02% at 15 years and beyond, emerging-market corporates at 1.38%, euro high yield at…

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