CME's E-Mini S&P 500 Trades Over 75,000 Contracts

For the first time, over 75,000 E-mini Standard & Poor's 500 equity index futures contracts traded during Tuesday's trading session at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Tuesday's total E-mini S&P 500 volume of 75,270 positions was 11 percent higher than the previous record volume of 67,823 contracts traded August 10. The E-mini S&P 500 contract is a one-fifth size version of the CME's leading stock market index contract, the S&P 500, and has a face value equal to $50 times the index. The contract trades on the CME's GLOBEX®2 electronic trading system virtually around the clock.