CHICAGO, Aug. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached average daily volume (ADV) of 16.6 million contracts during July 2019, up 23% from July 2018. Open interest (OI) at the end of July was 139 million contracts, up 20% from year-end 2018 and up 15% from July 2018.
Interest Rate volume averaged 8.8 million contracts per day in July 2019, up 44% from July 2018. Highlights include:
Options volume averaged 3.6 million contracts per day in July 2019, up 31% from July 2018. Highlights include:
Equity Index volume averaged 2.9 million contracts per day in July 2019, up 21% from July 2018. Highlights include:
Metals volume averaged 760,000 contracts per day in July 2019, up 18% from July 2018. Highlights include:
Energy volume averaged 2.2 million contracts per day in July 2019, in line with July 2018. Highlights include:
Agricultural volume averaged 1.3 million contracts per day in July 2019, down 3% from July 2018. Highlights include:
Foreign Exchange volume averaged 689,000 contracts per day in July 2019, down 18% from July 2018. Highlights include:
BrokerTec fixed income trading activity highlights include:
Footnote: To see CME Group daily over-the-counter (OTC) notional cleared volumes and open interest, monthly OTC notional cleared volumes and monthly total trade count, go to http://www.cmegroup.com/education/cme-volume-oi-records.html
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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