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CME Posts October Record Equity Volume
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
posted its best October ever in equity and
index products with volume up 13.9 percent,
as trading was fueled by all-time monthly
records in several individual products.
Among the products posting their best
single-month volume records ever were
E-mini S&P 500 futures (1,237,023) and
E-mini Nasdaq 100 futures (104,692).
Futures and options contracts on the
full-size Nasdaq 100 Index posted their best
October ever with respective volumes of
209,007 and 26,459. Options on the E-mini
S&P 500 futures contract also hit a new
October high with total trading volume of
5,112.
Other futures contracts posting October
volume records include lean hogs (187,794),
basic formula price (BFP) milk (3,082), GSCI
(77,541), Australian dollars (58,398), South
African rand (5,824), S&P/BARRA Growth
Index (332) and S&P/BARRA Value Index
(392). In the Interest Rate sector, options
on Euroyen also posted an October record
with total volume of 7,613.
Overall exchange volume for the month
totaled 16,209,587 futures and options
contracts.
Trading volume on the CME’s GLOBEX®2
electronic trading system continued its
steady pattern of growth in October with
total monthly volume of 1,780,098 contracts
– a 7.2 percent increase from the prior
month and 54 percent increase over
October 1998. Year-to-date GLOBEX2
volume is up 61.7 percent over the same
year-ago period.
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