CME Group Announces Open Interest Record In Benchmark Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Futures - NYMEX Brent (BZ) Sets Volume Trading Record

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced it reached a record in open interest for its global benchmark NYMEX Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) futures contracts yesterday, April 9, 2013. Open interest for NYMEX WTI reached 1,768,185 contracts, compared to 1,759,665 on April 4, 2013, the last record for this contract.

This comes at the same time that NYMEX Brent (BZ) is trading at record levels. NYMEX Brent set a volume trading record of 43,661 contracts on April 5, is trading at record average daily volume so far in April, and has open interest of approximately 50,000 lots.

CME Group's global energy complex includes the world's leading benchmarks — NYMEX WTI, Henry Hub Natural Gas, NYMEX Gasoline and ULSD Heating Oil (HO) — and trades more than 1.8 million contracts a day.

NYMEX light sweet crude oil and NYMEX Brent futures contracts are listed by and subject to the rules of NYMEX.