CHICAGO, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced that Micro E-mini Equity Index futures reached record
trading volume of 5.1 million contracts on March 4 across all four indexes – the S&P
500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
Indexes. These new highs surpassed the prior record of 4.4 million
contracts set on February 26,
2021.
Other volume records on March 4
include:
- 2.2 million Micro E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts, passing
the prior record of 2 million contracts set on September 8, 2020.
- 2.1 million Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts, passing
the prior record of 1.9 million contracts set on February 25, 2021.
- 423,255 Micro E-mini Russell 2000 futures contracts, exceeding
the prior record of 362,663 contracts set on February 26, 2021.
For more information on CME Group's Micro E-mini Equity Index
products, please see: www.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.
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TriOptima AB, and Traiana, Inc., respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones
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Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as
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