CHICAGO, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
reported May 2021 market statistics,
including average daily volume (ADV) of 20.6 million contracts
during the month. Market statistics are available in greater detail
at https://cmegroupinc.gcs-web.com/monthly-volume.
May ADV across asset classes includes:
- Interest Rate ADV of 10.2 million contracts
- Equity Index ADV of 5.6 million contracts
- Options ADV of 3.3 million contracts
- Energy ADV of 2.0 million contracts
- Agricultural ADV of 1.5 million contracts
- Foreign Exchange ADV of 701,000 contracts
- Metals ADV of 649,000 contracts
Additional May product highlights include:
- Overall volume grew 15% from May
2020
- Interest rate monthly ADV was up 24% year over year
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- SOFR futures ADV rose by 257% compared to May 2020
- Interest rate options grew by 34%
- Agricultural ADV rose 45% over May
2020, with agricultural options volume increasing 114% year
over year
- Options ADV was up 30% over May
2020
- Metals ADV grew 25% year over year, with metals options ADV
increasing 14% over May 2020
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- Micro futures and options represented 11% of total Metals ADV
in May 2021
- Equity index ADV rose by 7% year over year
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- Bitcoin futures monthly ADV rose to 11.6K, up 36% year over year
- Newly launched Micro Bitcoin futures reached an ADV of
30.3K
- Ether futures ADV of 6K, an
increase 146% over last month
- Micro E-mini futures and options represented 40.2% of overall
Equity Index ADV during May 2021
- Foreign Exchange ADV increased 9% from May 2020, with FX options rising by 2% year over
year
- BrokerTec European Repo average daily notional volume (ADNV)
grew 14% year over year to a record €318.2bn
- EBS Direct FX ADNV grew 41% from May
2020
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.
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