DOW S&P NDX Futures Hit Volume Records
E-mini™ S&P 500 Futures Surpass 1 Million Contracts on CME; Volume in E-mini NASDAQ-100 Futures Reaches New High
CHICAGO, March 13, 2003–Trading volume in E-mini™ S&P 500 futures surpassed one million contracts in a single day for the first time today, as 1,003,414 contracts changed hands on Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) GLOBEX® electronic trading platform. In addition, volume in NASDAQ-100 futures set a new daily record of 382,611 contracts today.
The previous volume in E-mini S&P 500 futures was set on Oct. 9, 2002 at 991,695, while E-mini NASDAQ-100 futures had previously set a single-day record on July 24, 2002 at 376,120 contracts.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX® around-the-clock electronic trading platform. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moves an average of about $1.8 billion per day in settlement payments and manages $27.4 billion in collateral deposits. On Dec. 6, 2002, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME) and its CME subsidiary became the first publicly traded U.S. financial exchange. For more information about Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. or about Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s products, visit the CME Web site at www.cme.com.
CBOT’S MINI-SIZED SM DOW JONES FUTURES CONTRACT SETS VOLUME AND OPEN INTEREST RECORDS
CHICAGO, March 13—The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOTÒ) today announced that a new daily volume record was set for mini-sized Dow Jones futures with 43,416 contracts traded on March 12, breaking the previous record of 36,083 contracts set on February 14, 2003.
Additionally, mini-sized Dow Jones futures posted an open interest record of 27,607, surpassing the previous record of 25,024 contracts outstanding on March 11, 2003. |
