CME Group Averaged 16.6 Million Contracts Per Day in July 2019, Up 23% from July 2018

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:

• Record SONIA futures ADV of 13,000 contracts, up 92% from the prior month
• U.S. Treasury futures and options ADV increased 30% to 4.2 million contracts
• Eurodollar futures and options ADV grew 48% to 4.1 million contracts
• Fed Fund futures ADV rose 268% to 450,000 contracts
• Weekly Treasury options ADV increased 168% to 215,000 contracts
• Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures and options ADV grew 42% to 171,000 contracts
• Ultra U.S. Treasury Bond futures and options ADV increased 8% to 115,000 contracts
• SOFR futures ADV rose to 37,000 contracts, up 33% from the prior month

Options volume averaged 3.6 million contracts per day in July 2019, up 31% from July 2018. Highlights include:

• Interest Rate options ADV grew 60% to 2.5 million contracts
• Metals options ADV increased 66% to 93,000 contracts

Equity Index volume averaged 2.9 million contracts per day in July 2019, up 21% from July 2018. Highlights include:

• Micro E-mini equity index futures averaged 483,000 contracts per day in July, and traded over 28.6 million contracts in total volume since their May 6 launch – the most successful product launch ever at CME Group
• E-mini S&P 500 futures ADV increased 4% to 1.2 million contracts
• E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures ADV grew 4% to 360,000 contracts
• E-mini and Standard S&P 500 Monday and Wednesday Weekly options rose 11% to 82,000 contracts
• Nikkei 225 (yen) futures and options ADV grew 14% to 32,000 contracts

Metals volume averaged 760,000 contracts per day in July 2019, up 18% from July 2018. Highlights include:

• Gold futures and options ADV increased 36% to 539,000 contracts
• Silver futures and options ADV rose 30% to 108,000 contracts
• Copper options ADV rose 34% to 2,300 contracts

Energy volume averaged 2.2 million contracts per day in July 2019, in line with July 2018. Highlights include:

• Natural Gas futures and options ADV rose 20% to 517,000 contracts
• Gasoline futures and options ADV increased 1% to 195,000 contracts
• Brent Crude Oil futures and options ADV rose 6% to 100,000 contracts

Agricultural volume averaged 1.3 million contracts per day in July 2019, down 3% from July 2018. Highlights include:

• Corn futures and options ADV grew 13% to 494,000 contracts
• Lean Hog futures and options ADV increased 22% to 91,000 contracts
• Livestock options ADV grew 7% to 27,000 contracts

Foreign Exchange volume averaged 689,000 contracts per day in July 2019, down 18% from July 2018. Highlights include:

• FX Cross Rates futures and options ADV rose 22% to 8,000 contracts
• South African rand futures and options ADV increased 46% to 2,600 contracts
• Russian ruble futures and options ADV grew 110% to 2,300 contracts

BrokerTec fixed income trading activity highlights include: 

• U.S. Treasury average daily notional volume grew 21% to $152 billion
• U.S. Repo average daily notional volume increased 18% to $261 billion
• European Repo average daily notional volume increased 5% to €263 billion

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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