CHICAGO,
June 15, 2017
/PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading
and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it
reached an all-time open interest record of 129 million contracts
on June 14, 2017, surpassing the
previous open interest record of 125.7 million contracts reached on
May 11, 2017. June 14 also represented the highest-volume
trading day in 2017 to date at 29.8 million contracts.
CME Group's FX futures and options products reached a
record volume of 2.5 million contracts on June 14, 2017, surpassing the previous record,
2.3 million contracts set on March 10,
2016, by 3 percent. A record number, more than 1,100, Large
Open Interest Holders traded FX futures. Of note, Canadian Dollar
futures and options had a record day of nearly 257,000 contracts
traded, surpassing the previous record of 251,000 set on
September 13, 2012.
CME Group's Interest Rate complex also experienced strong
volumes on June 14, with Fed Fund
futures reaching an all-time high of more than 907,000 contracts
traded in a single day, surpassing the previous record of 714,000
on March 2, 2017. Wednesday Weekly
Treasury options, launched less than two weeks ago on June 5, traded more than 42,000 contracts during
the June 14 trading
session.
Hard Winter Wheat futures
traded nearly 115,000 contracts, surpassing the previous record of
nearly 106,000, on May 1,
2017.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives
marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com)
is where the world comes to manage risk. Through its
exchanges, CME Group offers the widest range of global benchmark
products across all major asset classes, including futures and
options based on interest rates,
equity indexes, foreign
exchange,energy,
agricultural products and
metals. CME Group provides electronic
trading globally on its CME Globex
platform. The company also offers clearing and
settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded and
over-the-counter derivatives through its clearinghouses
CME Clearing and CME Clearing
Europe. CME Group's products and services ensure
that businesses around the world can effectively manage risk and
achieve growth.
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