CME’s Euro currency volume on CME Globex also established a new record with 126,479 contracts traded, surpassing the previous record of 110,605 contracts traded on June 9, 2004, and represented €16 billion ($20 billion) in notional value.
Through the end of September, trading in CME’s eFX market has more than doubled from last year and is up 118 percent. CME’s FX futures market provides users with liquid, transparent markets, guaranteed execution and central counterparty clearing risk management on 36 individual FX futures and 21 options on futures products. In 2003, more than 34 million FX contracts with a notional value of $3.7 trillion were traded at CME.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the largest futures exchange in theUnited States. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and CME Globex electronic trading platform. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moved about $1.5 billion per day in settlement payments in the first nine months of 2004 and managed $39.8 billion in collateral deposits as of September 30, 2004. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000® Index.
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