Year-to-date GLOBEX volume totals more than 22 million contracts, with an average daily volume of more than 500,000 contracts a day.
Also yesterday, trading volume in E-mini S&P 500 and E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures rose to record levels with 367,788 and 260,811 contracts traded respectively. These records surpass those set on Feb. 27 of 366,190 for the E-mini S&P 500 and 247,917 for the E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts.
In addition, combined trading volume in all stock index futures and options on futures totaled a record 633,567 contracts, surpassing the previous record of 619,209 contracts, also set on Feb. 27.
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.
