CHICAGO, Feb. 26,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading
derivatives marketplace, today reported it reached a new,
single-day volume record of 67,124,571 contracts traded on
February 25. This surpasses the
previous record of 66,256,756 contracts set on March 13, 2023.
The company also hit new daily volume records in its deeply
liquid interest rate complex on February
25:
- Interest Rate futures and options – 50,924,122 contracts
- U.S. Treasury futures and options – 40,664,890 contracts
- 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures – 6,543,368 contracts
- Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures – 4,076,504
contracts
- U.S. Treasury Bond futures – 2,831,906 contracts
"Amid heightened uncertainty, market participants are turning to
CME Group's deeply liquid futures and options, resulting in
new records for our overall volume, interest rate complex and U.S.
Treasury markets," said CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer Terry Duffy. "As investors
seek to protect their portfolios, CME Group remains focused on
providing innovative risk management solutions and $60 billion in unparalleled capital efficiencies
across asset classes, including $20
billion in daily margin savings in interest rates
alone."
CME Group provides the market's leading tools for managing risk
across the entire yield curve with U.S. Treasuries, SOFR, Fed
Funds, €STR and credit products. For more information, please visit
www.cmegroup.com/rates.
As the world's leading 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.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of
Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York
Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York
Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity
Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC
and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is a
product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC ("S&P DJI").
"S&P®", "S&P 500®", "SPY®", "SPX®", US 500 and The 500 are
trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC; Dow
Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or
trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks
have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored,
endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI
makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in
such products. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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