CHICAGO, May 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced
total open interest reached a record 138,185,824 contracts on
May 14, 2019. The previous record was
138,041,727 contracts set on March 15,
2018.
Open interest (OI) represents the number of active positions
that market participants are holding open without taking delivery
or offsetting, a measure that typically increases during times of
market uncertainty.
Since the end of 2018, overall CME Group OI has grown by 20%,
with five of CME Group's six asset classes also seeing rising OI
levels, including:
- Interest Rates, up 26%,
- Agricultural products, up 23%,
- Equity Index products, up 17%,
- Metals, up 15%,
- FX, up 6%.
A number of CME Group products set single-day OI records on
May 14, including:
- Long-Term U.S. Treasury Bond futures reached a record 1,256,482
contracts,
- Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures set a new record of
765,965 contracts,
- Lean Hog options reached a new record of 428,073 contracts,
and
- NYMEX Brent Crude Oil futures set a record of 234,216
contracts.
CME Group offers the widest range of global benchmark products
across all major asset classes, helping businesses everywhere
mitigate the complex risks they face in today's uncertain global
economy.
For more information about CME Group, please
visit www.cmegroup.com.
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.
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of Trade of the City of Chicago,
Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are
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and Traiana are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD,
TriOptima AB, and Traiana, Inc., respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones
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Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as
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