CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached a
record high in single-day volume with 25,734,651 contracts traded
across all asset classes on Tuesday, August
9, surpassing the previous record of 25,282,704 contracts on
May 6, 2010.
Additionally, record volumes were reached in gold futures and
options with 504,368 contracts, surpassing the July 28, 2010, record of 469,689 contracts, and
Australian dollar futures and options with 311,684 contracts,
surpassing the August 5, 2011, record
of 285,355 contracts.
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. Further information about CME Group
(NASDAQ: CME) and its products can be found at www.cmegroup.com.
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SOURCE CME Group