CHICAGO, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced its suite of energy futures and options reached a daily
trading volume record of 5,103,881 contracts on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, surpassing the previous
record of 5,067,833 contracts set on Dec. 1,
2016.
"Customers are increasingly accessing the deep liquidity across
our energy markets to manage price risk during this time of
increased volatility and uncertainty," said Peter Keavey, CME Group Global Head of Energy.
"We're continually working with participants to grow on-screen
liquidity across all our energy markets, especially energy options.
This increased access to our markets ensures customers can more
effectively and efficiently hedge and trade around the globe and
around the clock."
Additional energy futures and options volume records reached
yesterday include:
- Record 1,602,673 Henry Hub Natural Gas futures contracts,
surpassing the previous record of 1,232,635 contracts set on
Nov. 13, 2018
- Record 1,027,799 energy options contracts, surpassing the
previous record of 994,030 contracts set on Nov. 13, 2018
- Record 210,561 electronic Henry Hub Natural Gas Financial
options contracts, surpassing the previous record of 208,793
contracts set on Nov. 9, 2018
CME Group's suite of energy futures and options contracts are
listed by and subject to the rules of NYMEX. Additional information
about CME Group's energy products can be found
at www.cmegroup.com/energy.
About CME Group
As the world's leading and most
diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com)
enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets,
optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market
participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture
opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global
benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
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