CME Group Volume Averaged 12.1 Million Contracts per Day in November 2013, Up 9 Percent from November 2012

- Interest rate volume up 32 percent

- Eurodollars futures and options volumes up 53 and 56 percent, respectively

- Treasury futures and options volumes up 16 and 48 percent, respectively

- Agricultural commodities volume up 12 percent

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Dec 03, 2013, 07:30 ET

CHICAGO, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that November 2013 volume averaged 12.1 million contracts per day, up 9 percent compared with November 2012. Total volume for November 2013 was more than 241 million contracts, of which 87 percent was traded electronically.

CME Group interest rate volume averaged 6.0 million contracts per day in November, up 32 percent from November 2012. Eurodollar futures volume averaged 2.0 million contracts per day, up 53 percent from the same period a year ago. Eurodollar options volume averaged 484,000 contracts per day, up 56 percent from November last year. Treasury futures volume averaged 3.0 million contracts per day, up 16 percent compared with the same period a year ago. Treasury options volume averaged 533,000 contracts per day, up 48 percent from November 2012. The Ultra T-Bond achieved a monthly average daily volume record of 133,732 contracts in November 2013.

CME Group foreign exchange (FX) volume averaged 718,000 contracts per day, down 7 percent from November 2012, while FX options volume was up 49 percent. The average daily notional value of FX contracts traded in November was more than $88 billion. CME Group equity index volume in November 2013 averaged 2.2 million contracts per day, down 18 percent from the same period last year.

In November 2013, CME Group agricultural commodities volume averaged 1.2 million contracts per day, up 12 percent compared with the prior-year period. CME Group energy volume averaged 1.5 million contracts per day in November 2013, up 2 percent compared with the prior November. CME Group metals volume in November 2013 averaged 379,000 contracts per day, down 9 percent from November 2012.

In November 2013, CME Group cleared an average $92 billion a day of notional value of OTC interest rate swaps, excluding Thanksgiving. OTC IRS open interest increased 10 percent from the end of October to $8.2 trillion, as 398 market participants have cleared trades at CME Group during 2013.

Note that the KCBT hard red winter wheat average daily volume is included within the CME Group rollup as of April 1, 2013, but not historically prior to that date, following the acquisition which closed on November 30, 2012.

MONTHLY AVERAGE DAILY VOLUME (ADV)

Total Exchange ADV ( in thousands)

	Nov 2013	Nov 2012
Trading Days	20	21

PRODUCT LINE	Nov 2013	Nov 2012	Percent Change
Interest Rates	6,017	4,574	32%
Equity Indexes	2,213	2,685	-18%
Foreign Exchange (FX)	718	775	-7%
Energy	1,533	1,505	2%
Agricultural Commodities	1,220	1,091	12%
Metals	379	415	-9%
Total	12,079	11,045	9%

VENUE	Nov 2013	Nov 2012	Percent Change
Open outcry	966	795	21%
CME Globex	10,481	9,670	8%
Privately negotiated*	633	579	9%

ROLLING THREE-MONTH AVERAGES

Average Daily Volume (In thousands)

	3-Month Period Ending
PRODUCT LINE	Nov-13	Oct-13	Sep-13	Aug-13
Interest Rates	5,768	5,790	5,839	6,473
Equity Indexes	2,599	2,633	2,408	2,696
Foreign Exchange (FX)	725	734	792	913
Energy	1,574	1,585	1,609	1,667
Agricultural Commodities	1,035	1,006	1,009	1,084
Metals	334	334	360	394
Total	12,034	12,083	12,018	13,226

VENUE	Nov-13	Oct-13	Sep-13	Aug-13
Open outcry	1,076	1,150	1,173	1,234
Electronic	10,299	10,278	10,199	11,313
Privately negotiated*	659	655	646	679

*The privately negotiated venue includes both traditional block trades as well as what was historically categorized as CME ClearPort. Going forward there will no longer be a break out for CME ClearPort.

Average Rate Per Contract (In dollars)

	3-Month Period Ending
PRODUCT LINE	Oct-13	Sep-13	Aug-13	Jul-13
Interest Rates	0.482	0.484	0.466	0.461
Equity Indexes	0.682	0.695	0.711	0.717
Foreign Exchange (FX)	0.823	0.819	0.808	0.806
Energy	1.292	1.300	1.282	1.270
Agricultural Commodities	1.292	1.323	1.357	1.383
Metals	1.638	1.626	1.623	1.624
Total	0.752	0.762	0.750	0.738

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex^® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, which offers clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.

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