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CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, reached its third highest trading day of combined CME and CBOT products with 23,261,304 contracts traded for the trade date of January 22.
Electronic trading records on the CME Globex® electronic trading platform set yesterday included:- Eurodollar futures volume of 5,394,648 contracts; previous record of 5,246,828 contracts was set on August 9, 2007.
- Foreign Exchange (FX) products traded on CME Globex volume of 1,188,631 (notional value of $160 billion); previous volume record of 1,126,852 (notional value of $134 billion) was set on August 16, 2007. The overall FX notional value of $163 billion was also a record, surpassing the previous notional value record of $158 billion set on December 8, 2006.
- Equity Index Standard futures CME Globex volume of 151,075; previous record of 133,060 was set on March 6, 2007.
- Agricultural futures electronic volume of 573,997 (grains and oilseeds only); previous record of 565,055 contracts was set on January 16, 2008.
- Euro FX (EC) CME Globex volume of 428,738; previous record of 419,907 on December 8, 2006.
- Japanese Yen options on futures CME Globex volume of 19,246; previous record of 15,426 on July 24, 2007.
