CME Group Reports January 2008 Volume Averaged 14.3 Million Contracts per Day, Up 65 Percent, Recording Second-Highest Monthly Volume Ever
CHICAGO, Feb 01, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, today announced January volume averaged 14.3 million contracts per day, up 65 percent from January 2007, and second only to August 2007 in terms of highest monthly average daily volume. Total volume exceeded 300 million contracts for the month, of which 79 percent was traded electronically. Total electronic volume averaged 11.4 million contracts per day, up 79 percent from the prior January.
CME Group E-mini equity index daily volume averaged a record 3.9 million contracts per day in January, up 126 compared with January 2007. CME Group interest rate volume averaged 8.7 million contracts per day in January, up 57 percent from January 2007, and representing the second-highest monthly volume to date. CME Group commodities and alternative investments volume averaged 906,000 contracts per day in January, up 17 percent compared with the same period a year ago, and representing the second-highest monthly volume to date. CME Group foreign exchange volume averaged 596,000 contracts per day in January, up 21 percent versus January 2007.
Record NYMEX energy and metals volume on the CME Globex platform increased 42 percent to average 953,000 contracts per day. Other monthly electronic trading volume records reached in January 2008 include electronic Eurodollar futures volume, increasing 76 percent to 3.2 million contracts per day, and electronic commodities and alternative investments volume, increasing 66 percent to 516,000 contracts per day.
All references to volume and rate per contract information in the text of this document assume combined legacy CME and legacy CBOT volumes and exclude our non-traditional TRAKRS products, for which CME Group receives significantly lower clearing fees than other CME Group products, and Swapstream products.
CME GROUP MONTHLY AVERAGE DAILY VOLUME (In thousands) January 2008 January 2007 Percent Change PRODUCT LINE Interest Rates 8,733 5,549 57% E-Minis 3,888 1,720 126% Equity Standard 190 127 50% Foreign Exchange 596 494 21% Commodities and Alt. Inv.* 906 774 17% Total 14,313 8,663 65% VENUE Open Outcry 2,760 2,173 27% CME Globex and e-CBOT 11,355 6,353 79% Privately Negotiated 198 137 45% * CME Group Commodities and Alternative Investments product line includes the legacy CME Commodities and Alternative Investments product line and the legacy CBOT Agricultural product line and Metals, Energy and Other product line. CME GROUP ROLLING THREE-MONTH AVERAGES Average Rate Per Contract (In dollars, and calculated from combined average daily volumes for entire period) By Product Line By Venue Commod- ities Priv- 3-Month Int- Equity and ately Period erest E- Stand- Foreign Alt. Open Elec- Negot- Ending Rate Minis ard Exchange Inv. Total Outcry tronic iated Nov-07 0.523 0.671 1.442 0.972 1.070 0.636 0.503 0.623 3.050 Oct-07 0.520 0.663 1.454 0.956 1.056 0.623 0.474 0.618 2.906 Sep-07 0.519 0.673 1.451 0.951 1.032 0.622 0.473 0.613 2.878 Aug-07 0.517 0.677 1.397 0.981 1.040 0.624 0.474 0.612 2.876 Average Daily Volume (In thousands, average daily volumes combined for entire period) By Product Line By Venue Commod- ities Priv- 3-Month Int- Equity and ately Period erest E- Stand- Foreign Alt. Open Elec- Negot- Ending Rate Minis ard Exchange Inv. Total Outcry tronic iated Jan-08 7,390 3,276 187 583 812 12,247 2,241 9,811 195 Dec-07 6,290 2,817 166 561 740 10,574 1,876 8,528 169 Nov-07 6,847 2,395 173 599 744 11,298 2,149 8,979 169 Oct-07 7,500 3,019 190 601 694 12,004 2,488 9,330 186
CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com/) is the world's largest and most diverse exchange. Formed by the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (CME) and CBOT Holdings, Inc. (CBOT), CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on its trading floors. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark products available across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ under the symbol "CME".
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Statements in this news release that are not historical facts are forward- looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. Among the factors that might affect our performance are: our ability to successfully integrate the businesses of CME Holdings and CBOT Holdings, including the fact that such integration may be more difficult, time consuming or costly than expected and revenues following the merger may be lower than expected; increasing competition by foreign and domestic entities, including increased competition from new entrants into our markets and consolidation of existing entities; our ability to keep pace with rapid technological developments, including our ability to complete the development and implementation of the enhanced functionality required by our customers; our ability to continue introducing competitive new products and services on a timely, cost-effective basis, including through our electronic trading capabilities, and our ability to maintain the competitiveness of our existing products and services; our ability to adjust our fixed costs and expenses if our revenues decline; our ability to continue to generate revenues from our processing services provided to third parties; our ability to maintain existing customers and attract new ones; our ability to expand and offer our products in foreign jurisdictions; changes in domestic and foreign regulations; changes in government policy, including policies relating to common or directed clearing; the costs associated with protecting our intellectual property rights and our ability to operate our business without violating the intellectual property rights of others; our ability to generate revenue from our market data that may be reduced or eliminated by the growth of electronic trading; changes in our rate per contract due to shifts in the mix of the products traded, the trading venue and the mix of customers (whether the customer receives member or non- member fees or participates in one of our various incentive programs) and the impact of our tiered pricing structure; the ability of our financial safeguards package to adequately protect us from the credit risks of clearing members; changes in price levels and volatility in the derivatives markets and in underlying fixed income, equity, foreign exchange and commodities markets; economic, political, geopolitical and market conditions; natural disasters and other catastrophes, our ability to accommodate increases in trading volume and order transaction traffic without failure or degradation of performance of our systems; our ability to execute our growth strategy and maintain our growth effectively; our ability to manage the risks and control the costs associated with our acquisition, investment and alliance strategy; our ability to continue to generate funds and/or manage our indebtedness to allow us to continue to invest in our business; industry and customer consolidation; decreases in trading and clearing activity; the imposition of a transaction tax on futures and options on futures transactions; and the seasonality of the futures business. More detailed information about factors that may affect our performance may be found in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which is available in the Investor Relations section of the CME Group Web site. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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