Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. We provide the widest range of benchmark futures and options products available on any exchange, covering all major asset classes. Our collective vision is one of ongoing global growth, innovative product development, continually enhanced technology and the highest level of service available on any exchange.

Specifically, we offer futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. More than three quarters of our trading volume comes from trades made electronically on our CME Globex electronic trading platform.

We serve customers around the world with a global product line, virtually around-the-clock electronic trading and strategic alliances with other exchanges. We also offer a number of programs and products designed specifically to appeal to a global audience. Customers from more than 80 countries trade our products.

CME Clearing matches and settles our trades and guarantees the creditworthiness of every transaction that takes place in our markets.

CME Group is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."