By Michael Dabaie

CME Group Inc.'s (CME) second-quarter average daily volume reached 18.4 million contracts, up 12% from the year-ago quarter, the exchange company said Tuesday.

Average daily volume for June was 17.8 million contracts, an 8% increase on the year. Open interest at the end of June was 115 million contracts, up 2% from the end of June 2017, and up 6% from year-end 2017, CME said.

CME said there was double-digit growth across metals, foreign exchange, agricultural, equity index and interest-rate products during the quarter.

Metals volume averaged 674,000 contracts per day in the quarter, up 27% from a year earlier. Agricultural volume averaged a record 1.7 million contracts per day, a 16% increase from the second quarter of 2017, the company said.

Energy volume averaged 2.6 million contracts per day, which was in line with 2017's second quarter, CME said.

Write to Michael Dabaie at michael.dabaie@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

July 03, 2018 08:28 ET (12:28 GMT)

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