CME Group Announces Equity Index Options Record Volume

CHICAGO, Jan. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced a record volume trading day in the Equity Index options complex, which reached 1,061,279 contracts on January 24, 2014, surpassing the previous record of 931,164 on June 20, 2013, a 13 percent increase. This is the first time in CME Group's trading history that the entire Equity Index options complex has surpassed one million contracts in a single trading day.

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The E-mini S&P 500 options, including the weeklies and monthlies, traded 966,881 on January 24, 2014, surpassing the prior record of 809,935 on June 20, 2013, a 19 percent increase.

With five trading days remaining in January 2014, Equity Index options are up 69 percent from last year and the E-mini S&P 500 contracts are up 76 percent.

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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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