The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMX), announced today that it set daily volume records for its silver and copper futures contracts on the CME Globex electronic trading platform yesterday.
Silver futures reached 58,382 contracts, exceeding the 48,321 contracts traded on February 27. Copper futures totaled 17,927 contracts, surpassing the 16,214 contracts traded on April 11.
NYMEX launched its physically settled futures contracts for trading on CME Globex during regular open outcry trading hours on September 5, 2006, following its initial offering of financially settled, standard-sized and NYMEX miNYTM energy futures contracts for trading on CME Globex on June 12. On December 4, NYMEX introduced full-sized and COMEX miNYTM metals futures contracts for side-by-side trading.
Access to electronic trading of NYMEX energy and metals products is available virtually 24 hours a day on CME Globex.
For more information, go to www.nymexoncmeglobex.com .
