NYMEX Energy Futures Successfully Launch On CME Globex® Platform

NYMEX Holdings, Inc., the parent company of the preeminent physical futures exchange, and CME, the world’s largest and most diverse financial exchange, today reported solid volume on the first day that NYMEX energy products traded on the CME Globex® electronic trading platform.

NYMEX energy futures reached an estimated 62,695 contracts traded today on CME Globex, with full-sized crude oil futures trading an estimated 11,000 contracts.

NYMEX standard-sized and NYMEX miNYTM futures contracts for crude oil, natural gas, heating oil and gasoline traded on CME Globex during open outcry trading hours as well as before and after the NYMEX trading floor was closed. Also available on CME Globex are NYMEX Europe Brent crude oil standard-sized and miNY futures contracts and the Northwest Europe gasoil futures. CME is the exclusive electronic trading services provider for NYMEX’s energy futures contracts. Access to electronic trading of NYMEX products is available virtually 24 hours a day on CME Globex, the world’s leading derivatives electronic trading platform and the only electronic market place to offer every major asset class - interest rate, stock index, foreign exchange, agricultural, and, now energy.