CHICAGO, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced it reached a daily trading volume record of 1,232,635
contracts for Henry Hub Natural Gas futures on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, surpassing the previous
record of 1,022,858 contracts set on Jan.
12, 2018. Additional energy futures and options volume
records reached yesterday include:
- Record 994,030 energy options contracts, surpassing the
previous record of 732,462 contracts set on Mar. 9, 2017
- Record 794,990 electronic energy options contracts, surpassing
the previous record of 554,818 contracts traded on Mar. 9, 2017
- Record 693,975 WTI Light Sweet Crude Oil options contracts,
surpassing the previous record of 579,935 contracts on Nov. 30, 2016
Additionally, energy futures and options traded a combined
5,067,202 contracts yesterday, including nearly 2.1 million WTI
Light Sweet Crude Oil futures contracts. The current record of
5,067,833 combined energy futures and options contracts traded was
set on Dec. 1, 2016.
CME Group's suite of energy futures and options contracts are
listed by and subject to the rules of NYMEX. Additional information
about CME Group's energy products can be found
at www.cmegroup.com/energy.
As the world's leading and most diverse 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. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
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