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CHICAGO and SHANGHAI , Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the first trades of the new Shanghai Gold (USD) futures and Shanghai Gold (CNH) futures contracts, launched on October 14, 2019 were executed by Bank of Read more

CHICAGO , Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group , one of the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplaces, today announced it will become the first derivatives marketplace to offer real-time futures and options market data on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), starting Nov. 17, 2019 . Read more

LONDON and SINGAPORE , Oct. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it achieved its highest quarterly Asia Pacific average daily volume (ADV) on record, with 1.2 million contracts traded during third-quarter of 2019, up Read more

  CHICAGO , Oct. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it will launch E-mini S&P 500 ESG Index futures, a new risk management tool that aligns with environmental, social and governance (ESG) values. Read more

- September average daily volume rose 13% to 19.7 million contracts per day   - Record quarterly Metals average daily volume of 821,000 contracts, up 32%     CHICAGO , Oct. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --  CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached average daily Read more

  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. and CHICAGO , Oct. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmers became much more pessimistic about current conditions on their own farms and in the U.S. agricultural economy in late summer, according to the September Purdue University /CME Group Ag Economy Barometer . Read more

CHICAGO , Sept. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it will launch options on its Bitcoin futures contracts in Q1 2020, pending regulatory review. "Based on increasing client demand and robust growth in our Bitcoin Read more

CHICAGO , Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc. will announce earnings for the third quarter of 2019 before the markets open on Wednesday, October 30 , 2019. Written highlights for the quarter will be posted on its website at 6:00 a.m. Central Time , the same time it provides its earnings Read more

LONDON and NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EBS, a leading provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in foreign exchange markets, today announced it is launching a next-generation EBS Direct platform with enhanced capacity and speed, which will deliver round trip Read more

CHICAGO , Sept. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) futures reached a daily volume record of 152,649 contracts traded on Sept. 17 , surpassing the previous single-day volume record Read more

- Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) to Introduce New T+N Contracts Linked to COMEX Gold Futures Asia Spot Prices CHICAGO and SHANGHAI , Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the launch of two new gold futures contracts on Read more

CHICAGO , Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group announced today that John Pietrowicz , Chief Financial Officer, and Jack Tobin , Chief Accounting Officer, will present at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference in New York on Tuesday, September 10 , at 7:30 a.m. Read more

CHICAGO , Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --  CME Group Foundation will award more than $900,000 in new grants to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and local nonprofits to support in-school and after-school computer science programs with the goal of reducing "computer science deserts" in Chicago . Read more

CHICAGO , Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced its new liquefied natural gas (LNG) futures contract – U.S. LNG Export futures – will be available for trading on October 14, 2019 , pending regulatory review. U.S. Read more

CHICAGO , Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it will launch options on Three-Month Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) futures starting on Jan. 6, 2020 , pending regulatory review. Read more

- 12 trading days with volume above 25 million contracts - Record monthly average daily volume in Treasury futures and Metals - Record APAC monthly average daily volume of 1.4 million contracts, up 84% - Second-highest international monthly average daily volume of 6.1 million contracts, up 54% Read more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. and CHICAGO , Sept. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Purdue University /CME Group Ag Economy Barometer weakened significantly in August to a reading of 124, down 29 points from July. The barometer is based on a mid-month survey of 400 agricultural producers across the U.S. Read more

CHICAGO , Aug. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc. , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today declared a third-quarter dividend of $0.75 per share, payable September 25, 2019 , to shareholders of record as of September 10, 2019 . Read more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. and CHICAGO , Aug. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Purdue University /CME Group Ag Economy Barometer reading jumped to 153 in July, up 27 points from June, and up 52 points from May. Improving crop conditions after an extraordinarily wet planting season, combined with a late Read more

CHICAGO , Aug. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached average daily volume (ADV) of 16.6 million contracts during July 2019 , up 23% from July 2018 . Open interest (OI) at the end of July was 139 million contracts, up 20% from Read more