CBOT® Chairman Nickolas J. Neubauer said, "Yesterday's records show once again that in times of economic uncertainty, market users the world over rely on the diverse product mix, deep pool of liquidity and unmatched integrity and transparency found in the open auction and electronic markets at the Chicago Board of Trade."
The CBOT's Ten-year Treasury note futures contract set a daily total volume record with 1,000,058 contracts traded on February 27, breaking the previous record of 851,198 contracts traded the previous day. Additionally, Ten-year Treasury note swap futures set a daily total volume record of 29,035 contracts traded on February 27, breaking the previous record of 24,960 set on August 29, 2002.
In addition, the CBOT's Muni-note futures contract, launched on October 26, 2002, surpassed 2,000 contracts for the first time yesterday with total volume of 2,665 contracts traded. Open interest reached a high of 3,266 contracts.
The CBOT's Rough rice futures set a record with 5,493 contracts traded yesterday, compared to the previous record of 3,543 contracts traded on February 25, 2003.
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