CME Sets New Daily Volume Record With 7.5 Million Contracts On June 1 - CME® Globex®Sets New Daily Volume Record Of 5.1 Million Contracts - Eurodollar And Euro FX Records Set

CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, today announced that trading volume exceeded 7.5 million contracts^* on Wednesday, June 1, surpassing the previous CME record of 7.0 million contracts traded set on Friday, April 15. The CME Globex electronic trading platform set a new single-day record with 5.1 million contracts trading, overtaking the prior record of 4.9 million contracts traded on Friday, April 15.

CME also set a one-day open interest record of 33.6 positions*, breaking the previous mark of 33.4 million positions set on March 10. Open interest is the number of contracts that have been opened with either a purchase or sale, but not closed with an offsetting transaction.

In addition, CME achieved new records in a number of its individual products on Wednesday. Interest rate products set a new electronic trading record of 3.1 million contracts, driven by a record day for the benchmark CME Eurodollar futures contracts, which traded 3 million contracts. Open interest in interest rate products for the day reached a new high of 28.4 million positions, including a record 9 million open CME Eurodollar futures positions and 19 million CME Eurodollar options positions.

For the second consecutive day, CME Euro FX futures hit a new record with 209,765 contracts traded on CME Globex, up from the 206,465 contracts traded on Tuesday, May 31. Total CME Euro FX volume reached a new trading high of 233,181 contracts. This represents notional value of $32 billion and $36 billion respectively. New open interest records were also achieved yesterday in CME’s new Euro FX and Japanese yen options contracts. Open interest in the Yen options was 8,339 positions and 6,484 for the Euro FX options.

^*excluding its non-traditional TRAKRS TM products