CME Group Sets New Records in Euro FX and Russian Ruble Trading Volumes
September 08 2008 - 4:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
CHICAGO and LONDON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group,
the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange and the
largest regulated marketplace for foreign exchange (FX) trading,
established new FX volume records September 4 for its Euro FX and
Russian Ruble currencies. A record-breaking 423,521 Euro FX futures
and options on futures contracts traded electronically yesterday
representing a notional value of $76 billion. This surpassed the
previous record of 419,827 contracts traded electronically set on
August 8, 2008. CME Group also set a new record in its Russian
Ruble futures with 7,033 contracts traded electronically, total
volume of 7,181 contracts and a notional value of $701 million.
These surpassed the previous Russian Ruble records of 5,666 traded
electronically on August 8, 2008, a total record of 6,781 traded on
June 6, 2007, and a notional value record of $657 million on June
6, 2007. CME Group offers the largest regulated FX complex in the
world, providing FX users with liquid, transparent markets,
guaranteed execution and central counterparty clearing risk
management on 41 individual FX futures and 31 options on futures
products. Last year over 144 million FX contracts with a notional
value of over $17.9 trillion traded at CME Group. For more
information on CME Group FX products, visit
http://www.cmegroup.com/fx. CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com/) is
the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. Building
on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk
management needs of customers around the globe. As an international
marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the
CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in
Chicago and New York. CME Group offers the widest range of
benchmark products available across all major asset classes,
including futures and options based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities,
metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and
real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."
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