CHICAGO, Feb. 26, 2016
/PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most
diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that
the Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note (TN) futures
contract surpassed one million total contracts traded since its
launch seven weeks ago on Jan. 11.
This is also the first time in CME Group's nearly 170-year history
that a new product hit the one-million contracts mark in such a
short period of time. Other contracts that reached previous
seven-week record highs include the Ultra U.S. Treasury Bond
futures, which traded 523,000, and the E-mini Dow ($5) futures,
which traded nearly 470,000.
"We are extremely pleased to see such strong interest and
participation in our new Ultra 10-Year coming from a broad market
segment of nearly 200 clients across the U.S., Asia and Europe," said Agha Mirza, CME Group Global Head of Interest
Rate Products. "At CME Group, we continually strive to provide the
marketplace with capital-efficient products and services to meet
the risk management needs of our clients."
As of Feb. 25, more than 60
percent of TN open interest has already rolled into the June
expiration. TN preliminary open interest as of Feb. 25 has grown steadily to more than 62,000
contracts. CME Group continues to see strong participation in the
existing 10-Year T-Note Future (TY), with open interest in TY
increasing by more than 630,000 contracts in the seven weeks
following the listing of TN.
For more information on CME Group's Ultra 10-Year, please visit
www.cmegroup.com/ultra10.
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