Some individual product volume increases during November 2004 are:
Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice futures (or FCOJ, symbol OJ) showed another active month with a 54% increase (YTD). FCOJ options also climbed 188% (YTD).
NYBOT’s Sugar No. 11(SM) futures (symbol SB) was up 41% (YTD), while the options rose 79% (YTD).
The Coffee “C”® futures contract (symbol KC) grew 30% and the options (symbol KO) was up 45% (both YTD).
NYBOT’s Cocoa futures contract (symbol CC) saw a 13% increase, and its Cotton No. 2SM futures (symbol CT) rose 3% (both YTD).
In NYBOT’s financial markets, the U.S. Dollar Index® futures (symbol DX®) jumped 29%, and the DX options were up 107% (both YTD). The Russell 1000® Index futures contract (symbol R) rose 53% (YTD), while the options jumped 80% (YTD).
The exchange also set several new trading records:
- on December 1, new records were set in Total Currencies Futures daily open interest (132,986 contracts), and Sugar No. 11 Options daily open interest (418,874 contracts)
- on November 4, the Russell 2000 Index® options contract set a monthly open interest record (7,247 contracts)
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