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The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMX), announced today that it set daily volume records for heating oil and overall futures on the CME Globex electronic trading platform on June 8.
Overall futures on CME Globex reached a record 952,366 contracts, exceeding the 919,900 contracts traded on January 11.
Heating oil reached 84,165 contracts, surpassing the previous record of 82,680 contracts set on February 12.
NYMEX President and Chief Executive Officer James E. Newsome said, “We are satisfied with the continuing growth of NYMEX volume on the CME Globex electronic trading platform, as well as the records we continue to set in our energy complex.”
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 miNY energy futures contracts for trading on CME Globex on June 12. On December 4, NYMEX introduced full-sized and COMEX miNY 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
