CME Group Announces Trading Volume Records for U.S. Hot-Rolled Coil Steel Futures and Options

NEW YORK, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced it reached monthly trading volume records for its NYMEX U.S. Midwest Domestic Hot-Rolled Coil Steel Index futures (HRC) and options (HRO) contracts in February. These contracts are listed by and subject to the rules of NYMEX.

During the month of February, U.S. Midwest Domestic Hot-Rolled Coil Steel Index futures set a monthly volume record of 6,619 contracts, which surpassed the previous record of 6,214 contracts set in January 2012. At the same time, U.S. Midwest Domestic Hot-Rolled Coil Steel Index Average Price options recorded a monthly record of 1,350 contracts, surpassing the previous record of 1,000 set in August 2012.

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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