CME Group Volume Averaged 14.6 Million Contracts per Day in June 2015, Up 15 Percent from June 2014

CHICAGO, July 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that June 2015 volume averaged 14.6 million contracts per day, up 15 percent from June 2014. Total volume for June 2015 was more than 320 million contracts, of which 88 percent was traded electronically. Options volume in June averaged 2.9 million contracts per day, up 28 percent versus June 2014, with electronic options growing 48 percent over the same period.

CME Group interest rate volume averaged 6.9 million contracts per day in June 2015, up 8 percent compared with June 2014. Treasury average daily volume rose 17 percent, with Treasury futures volume of 2.7 million contracts per day, up 12 percent from the same period a year ago. Treasury options volume grew 37 percent to more than 748,000 contracts per day and included record Weekly Treasury options average daily volume. Eurodollar futures volume averaged 2.5 million contracts per day, down 5 percent compared with June 2014. Eurodollar options volume averaged 908,000 contracts per day, up 13 percent, driven by 84 percent growth in Eurodollar options traded on Globex. In June, 19 percent of the Eurodollar options volume traded electronically, the highest monthly percentage since early 2008, and up from 12 percent electronic a year ago.

CME Group foreign exchange (FX) volume averaged 987,000 contracts per day, up 29 percent from June 2014. The average daily notional value of FX contracts traded in June was $104 billion. CME Group equity index volume in June 2015 averaged 2.9 million contracts per day, up 16 percent from the same period a year ago.   

CME Group agricultural commodities volume averaged a record 1.7 million contracts per day, up 48 percent from June 2014. CME Group energy volume averaged 1.7 million contracts per day in June 2015, up 13 percent compared with the prior-year period. CME Group metals volume averaged 333,000 contracts per day, up 3 percent compared with the prior June.

In June 2015, CME Group cleared $148 billion in average daily notional value of over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate swaps. Month-end OTC interest rate swap open interest was $24 trillion, which represents 63 percent of clients' total cleared OTC interest rate swap open interest. Average daily trade count for the month was 2,197.

Second-quarter 2015 volume averaged 13.3 million contracts per day, up 6 percent from second-quarter 2014. Record agricultural commodities volume grew 30 percent compared with second-quarter 2014, while FX average daily volume grew 42 percent and energy average daily volume grew 20 percent. Other quarterly highlights include average daily volume records for Weekly Treasury options, RBOB Gas futures and options, and Soft Red Winter Wheat, Hard Red Winter Wheat and Soybean Meal futures and options.

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform, its trading facilities in New York and Chicago, and through its London-based CME Europe derivatives exchange. CME Group also operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.

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