CME Group Inc.'s (CME) December daily exchange trading volume declined from both a year earlier and the prior month on a sizable decline in trading volume for interest-rate futures.

The company reported daily volume averaged 9.6 million contracts in December, down 9% from a year earlier and a 27% drop from November.

Daily volume for interest-rate futures, the CME's biggest product by that metric, fell 30% from a year earlier to average 3.5 million contracts a day. Foreign exchange volume slipped 11% from a year earlier.

Equity index volume was up sharply, however, posting a 31% gain from December 2010 to average 2.8 million contracts a day.

CME Group in November reported its third-quarter earnings jumped 29%, helped by a double-digit jump in clearing and transaction fee revenue and sharply improved margins.

Class A shares of CME closed Tuesday at $245.63 and were inactive premarket. The stock is down 2.7% in the past three months.

-By Mia Lamar, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-3207; mia.lamar@dowjones.com

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