CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it reached trading volume and open interest records for its NYMEX Brent (BZ) crude oil futures contracts on Friday, July 11, 2014. Open interest for NYMEX Brent set a record of 101,425 on July 11, surpassing the 100,000 contracts milestone for the first…
Read moreCME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has rebounded in their FX volumes for June reporting a 30% MoM increase with 765k contracts per day being reported. In contrast, May's 589k was the 2nd slowest month for FX ever, following the low of April at the CME. For further comparison, June 2013 saw 1.2M contracts moved for the 37%…
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Read moreAfter several months of lackluster FX trading volumes on the heels of low volatility in the currency markets, finally a ray of hope. The CME Group (NASDAQ:CME), the world's largest derivatives marketplace, has reported that it saw record trading volumes for British pound (GBPUSD) futures contracts this past Thursday June 12. British pound futures volume reached…
Read moreWell at least CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has broken the streak we've seen of lower reported FX trading volume metrics in May (Click365, Moscow Exchange, EXNESS...). But we don't think that anyone at CME is celebrating. CME Group has reported that FX futures volumes averaged 589,000 contracts per day in May - up 5% from April's…
Read moreStatement on newly launched CME Europe, CEO Phupinder Gill commented, "With London being the center of global FX trading, we will focus on FX futures initially, and add other products going forward..." Forex volume on the CME ticked up 15% from 705k in 4Q 2013, to 817k in 1Q 2014. While volume is down 23%…
Read moreCME’s FX futures volumes made a favorable increase in March compared to February's results CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that March 2014 volume averaged 14.1 million contracts per day, up 13 percent compared with March 2013. Total volume for March 2014 was more than 295 million contracts, of…
Read moreThe upward trend pauses, figures lower by 28% over last year FX contracts volumes traded on the CME Group have dipped lower by 7% in the month of February to 769,000 contracts daily. That marks a break in a rising trend that we have observed since October of last year. The average daily notional value…
Read moreThe company aims to launch its new OTC derivatives offerings on the 3rd of March The European division of the CME Group, CME Clearing Europe has announced today that it received regulatory approval to launch Overnight Index Swaps, zero coupon swaps, Forward Rates Agreements, basis swaps and variable notional swaps. In addition the company is…
Read moreThe newest educational website related to financial markets is FuturesFundamentals.com One of the world's leading exchange traded and over-the-counter derivatives exchanges has launched a new website that is aiming to educate its readers on the role of futures markets in the real economy. The CME Group achieves two important goals with its launch - it's…
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