CME Group Reports February ADV of 29.6 Million Contracts

PR Newswire
3 min read
0
In this article:

  • Second-highest February on record

  • All-time monthly record for interest rate complex, with ADV of 17.2 million contracts

  • Record U.S. Treasury futures and options ADV of 10.9 million contracts

  • Record February options ADV of 6.4 million contracts

CHICAGO, March 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported its February 2024 market statistics, including an average daily volume (ADV) of 29.6 million contracts, an increase of 5% year-over-year and the second highest ADV on record for the month. The company's interest rate ADV reached a new all-time record, driven by trading of U.S. Treasury contracts. ADV also increased by double-digits in energy and agricultural products. Market statistics are available in greater detail at https://cmegroupinc.gcs-web.com/monthly-volume.

February 2024 ADV across asset classes includes:

Additional February 2024 product highlights compared to February 2023 include:

  • Interest Rate ADV increased 6%

    • Record U.S. Treasury futures and options ADV of 10.9 million contracts

    • 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 18% to 3.2 million contracts

    • 5-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 26% to 2.6 million contracts

    • 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 27% to 1.4 million contracts

  • Options ADV increased 8%

    • Equity Index options ADV increased 40% to 1.8 million contracts

    • Energy options ADV increased 65% to 448,000 contracts

    • Agricultural options ADV increased 48% to 345,000 contracts

  • Energy ADV increased 20%

    • Natural Gas options ADV increased 106% to 300,000 contracts

  • Agricultural ADV increased 19%

    • Corn futures ADV increased 20% to 458,000 contracts

    • Soybean Meal futures ADV increased 27% to 179,000 contracts

  • International ADV increased 9% to 8.1 million contracts, with EMEA ADV up 14%

  • Micro Products ADV

    • Micro E-mini Equity Index futures and options ADV of 2.2 million contracts represented 33% of overall Equity Index ADV and Micro WTI Crude Oil futures accounted for 3.8% of overall Energy ADV

  • BrokerTec U.S. Repo average daily notional value (ADNV) increased 2% to $298.6B

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 and EBS are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD and EBS Group LTD, respectively. 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.

CME-G

CisionCision
Cision

View original content:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cme-group-reports-february-adv-of-29-6-million-contracts-302078023.html

SOURCE CME Group

Advertisement

Recommended Stories