ICE Futures U.S.(R), a leading regulated U.S. futures exchange for global agricultural, equity index and currency markets, reported record volume in its new ICE Millions foreign exchange futures contracts of 735 contracts, or 7,350 mini-equivalent contracts, on November 19. The exchange also announced a new daily volume record for the Russell 1000(R) Index Mini futures contracts of 2,161 contracts.
Yesterday was the ninth consecutive trading day of volume growth for the ICE Millions FX contracts. In the first two weeks of trading, ICE Millions traded over $3 billion U.S. dollars in notional value. On November 6, ICE Futures U.S. launched the suite of ICE Millions futures. The contracts are ten times the notional value of the existing suite of ICE FX futures and options contracts. Covering a dozen currency cross rates, the ICE Millions bring price and transactional efficiencies to the FX marketplace.
Market data for ICE Millions and the Russell index futures contracts are available via the ICE website at www.theice.com.