July Highlights Included:
Total exchange month-end open interest: 4,651,262; CBOT average daily volume: 692,954; Project A® monthly total: 577,849; Project A average daily volume: 28,892; 30-Day Fed Funds futures rose 5.7% from July 1999 to 83,438 contracts, and 70.2% year-to-date with 868,732 contracts traded; 10-Year Treasury Note futures were up 5.8% from July 1999 at 2,580,881 contracts, and 33.5% year-to-date with 26,810,256 contracts traded; 5-Year Treasury Note futures rose 1.9% from July 1999 to 1,188,871 contracts, and 42.6% year-to-date at 13,886,679 contracts traded; Wheat futures set a daily open interest record in July at 148,344 contracts .
Seat Sales
CBOT Full membership last traded at $444,000 as of July 27, 2000; CBOT Associate membership last traded at $87,000 as of July 31, 2000; CBOT Commodity options membership interest last traded at $20,000 as of July 31, 2000; CBOT IDEM membership interest last traded at $6,501 as of July 24, 2000.
Financial Futures and Options
30-Day Fed Funds futures rose 5.7% from July 1999 to 83,438 contracts, and 70.2% year-to-date with 868,732; 10-Year Treasury Note futures increased 5.8% from July 1999 to 2,580,881 contracts, and 33.5% year-to-date with 26,810,256; 5-Year Treasury Note futures rose 1.9% from July 1999 to 1,188,871 contracts, and 42.6% year-to-date with 13,886,679.
Stock Index Futures and Options
CBOT® DJIASM futures at 215,279 in July, with YTD volume at 2,228,986; CBOT DJIA options YTD volume of 125,852, up 14.3%.
Agricultural Futures and Options Corn futures at 1,178,277 in July, were up 16% YTD with 10,981,188 contracts; Corn options at 562,142 contracts in July, were up 47.3% YTD with 3,531,218 contracts traded; Soybean futures at 883,433 in July, were up 5.5% YTD with 7,948,940 contracts; Soybean options July volume at 355,222, and 2,473,115 YTD; Rough Rice futures at 8,137, up 50% from July 1999, and up 36.8% YTD at 101,684 contracts traded.
The July Volume of Sales reports are now available at :http://www.cbot.com/market_info/index.html.
The July Pit vs. Electronic reports are now available OnBoard at: http://onboard.cbot.com/dept/marketinfo/reports.shtml
