CHICAGO, July 2, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that June volume averaged 11.4 million contracts per day, down 20 percent from June 2008, but up 6 percent from May 2009. Total volume was 251 million contracts for June, of which 79 percent ... Read more

CHICAGO, July 1, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has named David L. Shuler as Managing Director, Alliance and Venture Management. Shuler, 46, will be responsible for directing CME Group's investments in new businesses and strategic ... Read more

CHICAGO, July 1, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced the launch of clearing services for six new physically delivered natural gas liquids futures contracts. Clearing services will be available through CME ClearPort(R), a set of flexible clearing... Read more

CHICAGO, July 1, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced today that the multiplier for the S&P Financial SPCTR Index and the S&P Technology SPCTR Index futures contracts will each double to $250 times the index price beginning Monday, July 27. Along with ... Read more

CHICAGO, July 1, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced plans to increase the minimum trading increment for U.S. Treasury Bond futures to 1/32nd from the current setting of 1/2 of 1/32nd, effective August 30. The change will be applied to all expi... Read more

CHICAGO, June 29, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced the launch of its new sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission 25-allowance futures and options contracts. The futures contract will be available for clearing through CME ClearPort(R), a set of flexible... Read more

CHICAGO, June 24, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that its new In Delivery Month European Union Allowance (EUA) and Certified Emission Reduction (CER) futures contracts will be available for trading on CME Globex beginning on July 11 for tra... Read more

CHICAGO, June 24, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today made the following announcement regarding the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' report on the performance of the CBOT Wheat futures contract: "CME Group applauds government efforts to ensure e... Read more

CHICAGO and NEW YORK, June 22, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, and The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ OMX) (Nasdaq: NDAQ), the world's largest exchange company, today marked the 10th anniversary of the listing of E-mini futures on the popular NASDAQ-100 Ind... Read more

CHICAGO, June 19, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, will close its trading floors in Chicago and New York on Friday, July 3, 2009, in observance of Independence Day. All holiday trading hour details for open outcry and electronic trading on CME Globex(R) and... Read more

CHICAGO, June 18, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced the addition of Options on 5-, 7-, 10- and 30-Year Interest Rate Swap futures, beginning July 13, 2009. These contracts will be listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CBOT... Read more

CHICAGO, June 17, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group released the following statement in response to the proposed U.S. financial regulatory reform proposals announced today by the Obama Administration: "CME Group believes that the proposal to enhance regulation of systemic risk is an important effort to limit the pote... Read more

CHICAGO, June 16, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced the launch of four new In Delivery Month European Union Allowance (EUA) and Certified Emission Reduction (CER) futures and options contracts that will be available through CME ClearPort(R) an... Read more

CHICAGO, June 16, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced modifications to its trading fee schedule effective in the third quarter of 2009. Continuing with CME Group's practice of providing incentives to liquidity providers, the new schedule will e... Read more

CHICAGO, June 15, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has been selected by IDG's Computerworld, the "Voice of IT Management," as one of the top workplaces for information technology (IT) professionals for the fifth consecutive year. Thi... Read more

CHICAGO, June 15, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced a new Latin American Commercial Incentive Program that will enable Latin American-based commercial agricultural hedgers to receive discounted trading fees for electronic trading of CME and CB... Read more

CHICAGO, June 10, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group announced today that Executive Chairman Terry Duffy and Rick Redding, Managing Director of Products and Services, will present at the William Blair & Company Annual Growth Stock Conference to be held in Chicago on Thursday, June 11, at 8:40 a.m. (Central Time). The ... Read more

CHICAGO, June 9, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that CME Group Executive Chairman Terry Duffy will appear before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services' Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises... Read more

CHICAGO, June 8, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, experienced record volumes in their Eurodollar futures on Friday, June 5, 2009. In addition, CME Group's total daily volume and interest rate volume both reached its highest levels for 2009 with 18,149,132 a... Read more

CHICAGO, June 5, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- In the news release, CME Group Announces the Launch of Six Minute-Marker Energy Contracts, issued 05-Jun-2009 by CME Group over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the fourth paragraph should read, "The first listed month for the six new 3:15 p.m. New York time Minu... Read more