Chicago Climate Futures Exchange™ (CCFE™), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chicago Climate Exchange® Inc. (CCX®), announced today a record month in Sulfur Financial Instrument™ (SFI™) futures and options contracts with a total of 33,556 contracts traded in October. In the first 10 months of 2007, CCFE traded 212,117 contracts compared to 28,924 contracts for the entire year 2006. CCFE also reported record open interest in SFI futures (21,070 contracts) and SFI options (27,060 contracts).
CCFE has also seen increasing interest in its suite of new products, with a record levels of open interest in Carbon Financial Instrument® (CFI™) futures contracts (1,067 contracts) and IFEXTM Event Linked Futures (ELF) (1,107 contracts). The CCFE ECO-Index futures contract reached a new record for monthly volume with 338 contracts traded.
In October, CCFE introduced a physically deliverable futures contract for Certified Emission Reduction (CER) allowances and recorded monthly volume of 58 contracts (58,000 tonnes).
For complete price, volume and open interest information please visit http://www.ccfe.com/mktdata_ccfe/index.jsf
