CME Establishes New Single-Day Volume Records - Exchange Sets New Overall, CME® Globex®, CME Eurodollar, Total Options And E-MiniTMRussell 1000® Volume Records On Friday, April 1

CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, today announced that on Friday, April 1, it achieved a new single-day trading record of 6.7 million contracts, excluding its non-traditional TRAKRS ^TM products, surpassing the previous record of 6.5 million set on May 7, 2004.

In addition, CME Globex, the exchange’s electronic trading platform that operates virtually 24 hours every trading day, surpassed four million contracts traded in a single day for the first time, reaching 4.4 million. The previous single-day record for electronic trading was 3.8 million contracts set on March 16, 2005. CME Eurodollar interest rate contracts traded electronically surpassed 2.4 million contracts, also a new single-day record, surpassing the previous record of 2.1 million contracts set on March 23, 2005.

Total exchange options on futures contracts reached an all-time high with 1.8 million contracts traded, driven by record CME Eurodollar options volume, surpassing the previous record of 1.6 million contracts set on March 23, 2005. CME Eurodollar options volume reached a new record of 1.7 million contracts traded exceeding the previous record of 1.5 million contracts March 23, 2005.

The exchange also set a new record in CME E-mini Russell 1000 equity index futures trading 5,649 contracts, breaking the previous record of 4,894 set on March 11, 2005.