CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced more than 55,000 NYMEX WTI Houston Crude futures
contracts have traded since launch on November 5, 2018. Additional NYMEX WTI Houston
Crude Oil Futures records reached include:
- Record open interest of 4,004 contracts as of February 7, surpassing the previous record of
1,824 contracts set on February
6
- Record single-day trading volume of 4,430 contracts traded on
February 7, surpassing the previous
record of 2,232 contracts traded on January
31
During January, NYMEX WTI Houston Crude Oil futures average
daily volume grew to over 1,000 contracts traded per day.
NYMEX WTI Houston Crude Oil futures and options contracts expand
CME Group's already robust suite of crude oil futures and options
and complements the global benchmark NYMEX WTI Light Sweet Crude
Oil futures. Participants have the flexibility to make or take
delivery of U.S. light sweet crude oil at the Enterprise Crude
Houston (ECHO) terminal, Enterprise Houston Ship Channel (EHSC) or
Genoa Junction.
WTI Houston Crude Oil futures are listed with and subject to the
rules of NYMEX. For more information, please visit
www.cmegroup.com/wtihouston.
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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