CBOT's March Volume At 23,401,000 Contracts

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the world's leading futures and options exchange, announced today trading volume of 23,401,000 contracts for March 1999, and 69,349,073 contracts year-to-date, up 1.8%. March Highlights Included: CBOT volume reached more than one million contracts per day on 10 of the 23 trading days in March . CBOT average daily volume: 1,017,435 contracts. Project A® monthly total: 988,435, up 36.6% from March 1998 and up 40.3% year-to-date at 3,321,922. Project A average daily volume: 42,975 contracts. Wheat futures in March set a monthly volume record of 710,375 contracts