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CME Volume Up In October
A CME Group press release said that its volume for October 2011 was up 9 percent from October 2010, averaging 12.4 million contracts per day. Equity-index contracts were the best-performing segment, with a 29 percent year-over-year increase in average daily volume. Meanwhile, interest-rate contracts were the worst-performing segment, with average daily volume up just 2 percent.
Monthly volume for the exchange group’s most actively traded index futures contract, the e-mini S&P 500, was up 31.3 percent year-over-year to 55 million contracts. Trading in the e-mini Nasdaq-100 contract was up just 9 percent to 6.8 million contracts, and the e-mini $5 Dow contract’s volume was at 2.8 million contracts for the month, a year-over-year increase of 4.6 percent.
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2012
