Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that overall May 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 16.5 million contracts, up slightly from 16.3 million in April. Full exchange results by product can be found below: Interest rate volume averaged 8.9 million contracts per day in May 2017, up 20 percent from May 2016. …
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It was a holiday shortened week of Forex Industry News, but not too short for a number of important issues and topics you read about only at LeapRate: Which Forex company is the latest recipient of a CySEC CIF license? Which leading broker had its best ever volumes month? Which European central bank took a large…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it has declared a first-quarter dividend of $0.66 per share, a 10 percent increase from the prior rate of $0.60 per share. The dividend is payable March 27, 2017, to shareholders of record as of March 10, 2017. The increase comes several days after CME Group reported…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it cleared a record 1 trillion in Mexican peso (MXN) interest rate swaps in a single day, January 12, 2017, an equivalent of more than $47 billion in notional value. January 12 cleared notional surpassed the previous record of MXN 659 billion ($32 billion) set…
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Big data pricing technology provider qbeats has announced that its multi-patented QMV dynamic content valuation and pricing system has gone live with CME Direct, the highly-configurable trading front end for all listed CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) markets. CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives exchange, will become the first full marketplace to offer…
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Continued market volatility and uncertainty has led derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) to announce that it has set a total open interest record of 120.7 million contracts on December 13, 2016, surpassing the previous record of 119.4 million contracts set on December 12, 2016. According to Terry Duffy, CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer:…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Montreal based TickSmith, a leader in Big Data applications for capital markets, to improve access to CME Group's historical data by implementing TickSmith's TickVault to power CME DataMine. With more than 450 Terabytes of historical market data, some of…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that August 2016 average daily volume (ADV) reached 13.8 million contracts per day, down 15% from August 2015. CME Group year-to-date 2016 ADV through August averaged 15.5 million contracts per day, up 9%. Total open interest was 105 million contracts at the end of August, up 15%…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced the first trades of the USD Malaysian Crude Palm Oil Calendar futures (CPO) that were launched on July 11, 2016. The trade that took place on August 12, 2016 was between Louis Dreyfus Commodities and a major Indonesian palm oil plantation house, and was brokered by Ginga…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that July 2016 average daily volume (ADV) reached 14.1 million contracts per day, up 10% from July 2015. CME Group July 2016 options volume averaged 3.2 million contracts per day, up 9% versus July 2015, with electronic options averaging 1.7 million contracts per day, up 6%…
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