CME® Eurodollar Options Reach All-Time High - CME Marks Third Busiest Day For Total Volume And CME®Globex®

CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, announced today that it had set a new record yesterday in CME® Eurodollar options of 1,524,246 contracts traded. The previous record of 1,453,541 options contracts was set on August 6, 2004.

CME electronic interest rate products, traded on the CME® Globex® platform, also set an overall trading record of 2,130,593 futures and options on futures contracts. This helped to drive CME Globex volume of 3,729,069 contracts for all products, the third busiest day for electronic trading in exchange history. CME Globex trading has broken records twice this month, on March 10 and March 16, and the electronic platform has seen three of its top-five trading days this March.

Yesterday also marked the third busiest day in CME history with 6,079,175 contracts traded.

All CME records exclude CME’s non-traditional TRAKRS® products.