In 1997, CME launched innovative "E-mini" S&P 500 futures, traded electronically around the clock on CME's GLOBEX® electronic trading platform. E-mini S&P 500 futures and E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures, launched in 1999, are the fastest growing products in the exchange's 104-year history. In 2001, trading volume in E-mini S&P 500 futures totaled 39.4 million contracts, up 105 percent over 2000 levels. E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures volume totaled 32.6 million contracts last year, an increase of more than 200 percent.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the largest futures exchange in the United States. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX® around-the-clock electronic trading platform. CME offers futures contracts and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moves about $1.5 billion per day in settlement payments and manages $28.2 billion in collateral deposits. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.
