CHICAGO, Sept. 8,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading
derivatives marketplace, today announced it will expand its suite
of E-mini Nasdaq-100 options with the launch of Tuesday and
Thursday Weekly options on October 3,
pending regulatory review. These new weekly options contracts will
complement the existing Monday, Wednesday and Friday Weeklies,
End-of-Month and Quarterly options on Nasdaq-100 futures.
"As demand for additional short-dated equity options continues
to grow, we are expanding the number of weekly expiries to allow
our clients to hedge or trade with enhanced flexibility and
precision around major market-moving events," said Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equity and FX
Products at CME Group. "The addition of Tuesday and Thursday Weekly
options also builds on our longstanding partnership with Nasdaq and
provides another way for traders to access our deep, liquid
underlying Nasdaq-100 futures markets."
"The Nasdaq-100 index has provided investors with exposure to
the world's most innovative companies for over 35 years," said
Sean Wasserman, Vice President and
Global Head of Index & Advisor Solutions at Nasdaq. "We're
pleased to be continuing our work with CME Group to expand the
weekly options supporting investors with innovative tools to
customize their investments and risk management."
Interest and trading activity around E-mini Nasdaq-100 options
continues to grow. Year-to-date, E-mini Nasdaq-100 Monday,
Wednesday and Friday Weekly options average daily volume is
29.4K contracts, representing a 66%
increase year-over-year.
For more information on E-mini Nasdaq-100 Weekly options, please
visit: www.cmegroup.com/nasdaqweeklyoptions.
As the world's leading 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.
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