CHICAGO, Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced it reached a trading volume record for Eurodollar options
yesterday, January 19, of 4,279,584
contracts, surpassing the previous record of 3,493,675 set on
June 24, 2013. Open interest in
Eurodollar options also increased by 1.6 million to 30.76 million,
up from 26.05 million at 2015 year end.
"As we continue to see global economic uncertainty, clients are
utilizing CME Group's Eurodollar options because of the deep and
consistent liquidity," said Agha
Mirza, CME Group Global Head of Interest Rate Products. "The
contracts offer a diversity of participants, flexibility in strikes
and expirations, and highly useful option tools and platforms for
clients to manage their risk."
CME Eurodollar options contracts are listed by and subject to
the rules of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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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