CHICAGO, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced that it has been honored with an Inside Market
Data Award for Acquisition of the Year with its 90 percent
ownership interest in Dow Jones Indexes.
The Inside Market Data award recognizes industry
excellence with market data, reference data and enterprise data
management. Nominations were put forward by an editorial committee
including Inside Market Data staff. The awards are
voted on by the publication's readership through an online
ballot.
CME Group was recognized for taking a 90 percent ownership
interest in a joint venture that owns Dow Jones Indexes. The
partnership builds on the strong brand and market expertise of both
CME Group and Dow Jones Indexes, and expands the global reach of
its index creation, calculation services and market data businesses
across complementary asset classes, including cash, derivatives and
customized over-the-counter markets.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage
risk. CME Group exchanges offer 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 commodities, metals, weather
and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers
together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and
its trading facilities in New York
and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the
world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, which
offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded
contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions
through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that
businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty
credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives
markets.
CME Group is a trademark of CME Group Inc. The Globe Logo, CME,
Globex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange are trademarks of Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and the Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the
Board of Trade of the City of
Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and
ClearPort are registered trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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SOURCE CME Group