CHICAGO, June 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
reported May 2020 market statistics,
showing it reached average daily volume (ADV) of 17.9 million
contracts during the month. Open interest at the end of May was 114
million contracts. Market statistics are available online in
greater detail at
https://cmegroupinc.gcs-web.com/monthly-volume.
May ADV across asset classes include:
- Interest Rate ADV of 8.2 million contracts
- Equity Index ADV of 5.2 million contracts
- Options ADV of 2.5 million contracts
- Energy ADV of 2.4 million contracts
- Agricultural ADV of 1 million contracts
- Foreign Exchange ADV of 641,000 contracts
- Metals ADV of 519,000 contracts
Additional May product highlights include:
- Equity Index ADV grew 23% from May
2019
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- Micro E-mini Equity futures traded 252 million contracts,
across all four indices, since their May
2019 launch
- E-mini Russell 2000 futures ADV grew 39%
- Henry Hub Natural Gas futures ADV rose 54%
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading
central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range
of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the
entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and
reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing
services through Traiana.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile
Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board
of Trade of the City of Chicago,
Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are
trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a
trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec, EBS, TriOptima,
and Traiana are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD,
TriOptima AB, and Traiana, Inc., respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones
Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are service and/or
trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard &
Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as
the case may be, and have been licensed for use by Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
CME-G
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SOURCE CME Group