CME Group Volume Averaged 14.2 Million Contracts per Day in November 2010, Up 31 Percent, and Up 24 Percent Sequentially

CHICAGO, Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that November volume averaged 14.2 million contracts per day, up 31 percent from November 2009, and up 24 percent compared with October 2010.  November represents the highest monthly average daily volume since September 2008, outside of the 16.8 million contracts averaged in May 2010.  Total volume for November was 297 million contracts, of which 83 percent was traded electronically.  

In November 2010, CME Group interest rate volume averaged 7.0 million contracts per day, up 46 percent compared with the prior November, and up 48 percent sequentially.  Treasury futures volume averaged 3.0 million contracts per day, up 37 percent compared with the same period in 2009, and Treasury options volume averaged 444,000 contracts per day, up 106 percent.  Eurodollar futures volume averaged 2.6 million contracts per day, up 61 percent versus November 2009, and Eurodollar options volume averaged 838,000 contracts per day, up 24 percent.  

CME Group equity index volume averaged 2.8 million contracts per day, up 15 percent from November 2009, and up 7 percent sequentially.  CME Group foreign exchange (FX) volume averaged 964,000 contracts per day, up 23 percent compared with the same period a year ago, reflecting average daily notional value of $131 billion.

CME Group energy volume averaged 1.6 million contracts per day, up 6 percent compared with November 2009.  CME Group commodities volume averaged a record 1.3 million contracts per day, up 47 percent compared with the prior November, and up 13 percent from October 2010.  CME Group metals volume averaged a record 500,000 contracts per day, up 34 percent compared with the same period last year, and up 42 percent sequentially.

Electronic volume averaged 11.8 million contracts per day, up 33 percent from the prior November, while privately negotiated volume increased 51 percent to 263,000 contracts per day. Average daily volume cleared through CME ClearPort was 403,000 contracts for November 2010, down 5 percent compared with November 2009.  Open outcry volume averaged 1.7 million contracts per day in November, up 25 percent versus November 2009.

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.

All references to CME Group volume and rate per contract information in the text of this document exclude our non-traditional TRAKRS products, for which CME Group receives significantly lower clearing fees than other CME Group products, HuRLO products and credit default swap clearing.

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 largest central counterparty clearing services in the world, which provides 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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