CME Group Announces First Trades of Physically-Delivered Ethanol Futures & Options

CHICAGO, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced its new physically-delivered Ethanol futures and options are now available for trading. A total of five futures contracts traded on February 7, 2025.

"We are pleased to see industry support for our latest Ethanol contracts, which have enhanced specifications and are complementary to our existing suite of renewable fuel products," said Peter Keavey, Global Head of Energy and Environmental Products at CME Group. "Ethanol is an increasingly important component of the transportation fuel mix, and the physically-delivered futures will allow gasoline blenders and other commercial users to hedge their price exposure and more effectively manage the differential between other refined products."

Ethanol futures are sized at 42,000 gallons, which is in line with CME Group's benchmark RBOB Gasoline futures and NY ULSD Heating Oil futures. Ethanol futures offer flexibility to market participants by providing options for delivery.

Denatured Ethanol futures and options are listed by and subject to the rules of NYMEX. For more information, please visit here.

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. 

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