CHICAGO, Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached average daily volume (ADV) of 24.3 million contracts during August 2019, up 53% from August 2018 and the second-highest monthly ADV on record. During a month that historically sees lower average daily volumes, August 2019 was the company's best August ever. Open interest (OI) at the end of August was 139 million contracts, up 21% from year-end 2018 and up 14% from August 2018.
Equity Index volume averaged 5 million contracts per day in August 2019, up 109% from August 2018 and the third-highest monthly ADV on record. Highlights include:
Interest Rate volume averaged 13.7 million contracts per day in August 2019, up 59% from August 2018 and the third-highest monthly ADV on record. Highlights include:
Options volume averaged 4.7 million contracts per day in August 2019, up 49% from August 2018. Highlights include:
Metals volume averaged a record 885,000 contracts per day in August 2019, up 41% from August 2018. Highlights include:
Energy volume averaged 2.4 million contracts per day in August 2019, up 25% from August 2018. Highlights include:
Agricultural volume averaged 1.5 million contracts per day in August 2019, up 4% from August 2018. Highlights include:
Foreign Exchange volume averaged 821,000 contracts per day in August 2019, down 7% from August 2018. Highlights include:
BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange trading activity highlights include:
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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