CME Group Volume Averaged 13.1 Million Contracts per Day in June 2012

CHICAGO, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that June 2012 volume averaged 13.1 million contracts per day, down 11 percent from June 2011, and down 1 percent from May 2012.  Total volume for June was more than 276 million contracts, of which a record 86 percent was traded electronically.  Second-quarter 2012 volume averaged 12.4 million contracts per day, down 9 percent year-over-year, but up 1 percent compared with first-quarter 2012.

In June 2012, CME Group interest rate volume averaged 5.1 million contracts per day, down 28 percent from June 2011.  Treasury futures volume averaged 2.3 million contracts per day, while Treasury options volume averaged 307,000 contracts per day.  Eurodollar futures volume averaged 1.8 million contracts per day, while Eurodollar options volume averaged 589,000 contracts per day.

CME Group equity index volume in June 2012 averaged 3.5 million contracts per day, down 1 percent from the same period last year.  CME Group foreign exchange (FX) volume averaged 1.1 million contracts per day, up 8 percent from June last year, reflecting average daily notional value of $128 billion, and set an all-time FX open interest record in June 2012.

CME Group energy volume averaged 1.8 million contracts per day in June 2012, up 1 percent compared with the same period in 2011.  CME Group agricultural commodities volume averaged 1.4 million contracts per day, up 15 percent compared with the prior-year period.  CME Group metals volume averaged 381,000 contracts per day, up 17 percent from the same period last year.

Electronic volume averaged 11.3 million contracts per day in June 2012, down 10 percent compared with June 2011.  Privately negotiated volume decreased 8 percent to 271,000 contracts per day from the prior June.  Average daily volume cleared through CME ClearPort was 400,000 contracts in June 2012, down 7 percent compared with June 2011.  Open outcry volume averaged 1.1 million contracts per day, down 23 percent versus the prior-year period.

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Average daily volume and rate per contract figures from 2008 have been revised due to standardizing NYMEX reporting conventions to follow CME's treatment of post-trade transactions such as exercises, assignments and deliveries.

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk.  CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.  CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago.  CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®.  These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.   

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SOURCE CME Group