CHICAGO, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced that Micro E-mini equity index futures volume has
surpassed 1 million contracts in less than three full days of
trading. This total cumulative volume represents trading across all
four indexes – S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000 and Dow Jones
Industrial Average – making Micro E-mini futures the most
successful product launch ever at CME Group.
Micro E-mini equity index futures are one-tenth the size of CME
Group's existing E-mini equity index futures, and offer traders of
all sizes a simple, flexible way to access the equity index futures
markets.
Micro E-mini equity index futures are listed by and subject to
the rules of CME and CBOT. For more information, please visit
cmegroup.com/microeminis.
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.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks
of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile
Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange,
Inc. BrokerTec, EBS, TriOptima, and Traiana are trademarks of
BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD, TriOptima AB, and Traiana,
Inc., respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones
Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are service and/or
trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard &
Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as
the case may be, and have been licensed for use by Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
CME-G
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SOURCE CME Group