NYBOTs U.S. Dollar Index Sets Record Volume And Open Interest

The U. S. Dollar Index® (symbol DX), which trades exclusively at the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®), had a record day yesterday in both volume and open interest levels.

• The futures contract traded 24,835 contracts on June 6, 2005, replacing the previous high of 24,057 contracts set on December 6, 2004.
• The futures contract also set a record in open interest on June 6, with 34,955 contracts outstanding. The previous record of 34,298 contracts was from September 3, 1992.

The U.S. Dollar Index is computed using a trade-weighted geometric average of six currencies. The six currencies are the Euro, Japan/yen, UK/pound, Canada/dollar, Sweden/krona, and Switzerland/franc.

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