CBOT'S Mini-Sized Dow<SUP>sm</SUP> Jones Futures And Fed Funds Options Contracts Set Volume Records

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced that a new daily volume record was set for CBOT®mini-sized Dow futures with 50,556 contracts traded on April 22, breaking the previous record of 44,615 contracts traded on March 13, 2003. In the first quarter of 2003, the mini-sized Dow has experienced a 54.7 percent volume increase from the last quarter in 2002. Year-to-date volume is at 2,386,649 contracts traded.

Fed Funds options also set a volume record on April 22 with 22,385 contracts traded, surpassing the previous record of 19,122 set on April 11, 2003.