A total of 86,829 CME Eurodollar electronic options contracts were traded on CME(R) Globex(R), the exchange's electronic platform that operates virtually 24 hours every trading day. Electronic CME Eurodollar option contracts traded yesterday represented 13 percent of the total CME Eurodollar option volume of 685,464 contracts.
The new volume record eclipses the prior total of electronically traded CME Eurodollar options of 77,082 on May 6, 2005, which represented 6 percent of the total CME Eurodollar options volume traded that day. The previous record percentage for electronic CME Eurodollar options traded was 9 percent on August 19, 2005, when 49,728 options contracts traded.
On August 14, 2005, CME integrated its enhanced options system for trading CME Eurodollar options into its CME Globex electronic trading platform creating broader access and around the clock liquidity for CME Eurodollar options.
From January through July 2005, the volume of CME Eurodollar option contracts traded rose by 40.5 percent over the same period in 2004. For that same period, the growth for CME Eurodollar futures was 42.3 percent and for CME Eurodollar futures and options combined 41.8 percent.
In July 2005, total CME Interest Rate products average daily volume reached 2.1 million contracts, up 20 percent from 2004, an increase driven by electronically traded CME Eurodollar futures. Electronic CME Eurodollars represented 84 percent of total CME Eurodollar futures volume in July, compared with 58 percent a year ago; and an average daily volume of 1.1 million contracts, up more than 60 percent from the same period a year ago.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ( http://www.cme.com ) is the largest futures exchange in the United States. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on CME Globex electronic trading platform and on its trading floors. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moved about $1.6 billion per day in settlement payments in the first half of 2005 and managed $43.7 billion in collateral deposits at June 30, 2005, including $4.0 billion in deposits for non-CME products. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000(R) Index.
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