CME set new electronic individual currency records yesterday in its Japanese Yen futures with 139,308 contracts, Swiss Franc futures with 75,389 contracts, and Canadian Dollar futures with 72,425 futures contracts traded respectively. CME also set individual currency records in its Japanese Yen futures with 166,432 contracts, Swiss Franc futures with 89,244 contracts, Canadian Dollar futures with 113,398 contracts, British Pound futures with 120,691 contracts and Euro FX futures with 249,719 contracts.
CME offers the largest regulated FX derivatives trading complex in the world, providing users with liquid, transparent markets, guaranteed execution and central counterparty clearing risk management on 36 individual FX futures and 23 options on futures products. CME received FX Week's 2004 and 2005 eFX award for the best electronic futures platform. For third quarter 2005, CME FX averaged a record 336,000 contracts per day, representing a notional value of $40 billion, approximately 82 percent of which was traded electronically on the CME(R) Globex(R) electronic trading platform. Last year, over 51 million FX contracts with a notional value of over $6.2 trillion traded at CME.
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 $1.4 billion per day in settlement payments in the first three quarters of 2005 and managed $43.8 billion in collateral deposits at September 30, 2005, including $3.8 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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