ICE Futures U.S.(TM), a leading regulated U.S. futures exchange for global agricultural, equity index and currency markets, today announced that its mini Russell 2000(R) Index futures contract set a second consecutive day of record volume and open interest on Tuesday, September 9. Total daily volume of 36,230 contracts in the mini Russell 2000 futures exceeded by 64% the record established on Monday of 22,129 contracts.
Beginning next Friday, September 19, Russell Index futures and options on futures contracts will for the first time trade exclusively on ICE. Over $4.4 trillion in assets and more than 99% of small cap institutional assets are benchmarked to Russell indexes.
Open interest in the mini and full-size Russell 2000 futures increased from 1,377 contracts at January 1, 2008 to 82,849 contracts as of September 9, based on mini equivalents. The new record represents a 29% rise over Monday's record of 64,249 mini equivalents.
Free real-time market data for the mini Russell 2000 index futures contract is now available via the ICE website at www.theice.com . Daily volume in the mini Russell 2000 futures contract is published on ICE's homepage.
