CME Group Announces Daily Trading Volume Record in NYMEX Brent (BZ) Crude Oil Futures

NEW YORK, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced it reached a trading volume record for its NYMEX Brent (BZ) crude oil futures contract on Friday, June 7, 2013. Trading volume for NYMEX Brent reached 52,352, compared to April 12, 2013, the last record day, when volume reached 44,357 contracts.

This is the first time NYMEX Brent has surpassed 50,000 contracts. Additionally, open interest for this contract is at near-record levels of 60,356 lots. The record for open interest was set on May 20, 2013, when it reached 60,502 contracts.

NYMEX Brent futures contracts are listed by and subject to the rules of NYMEX.

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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