Investor News & Highlights

CHICAGO , Dec. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group announced today that John Pietrowicz , Chief Financial Officer, and Sean Tully , Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Financial and OTC Products, will present at the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial Services Conference in New York on Tuesday, Read more

New product specifications, delivery locations to be added in 2020 CHICAGO , Dec. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced enhanced product specifications and two additional delivery points for its WTI Houston crude oil futures Read more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. and CHICAGO , Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Agricultural economy sentiment tied with its highest reading of 2019, according to the November Purdue University /CME Group Ag Economy Barometer . Rising for a second month in a row, the barometer improved to a reading of 153 in Read more

CHICAGO , Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --  CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached average daily volume (ADV) of 18.2 million contracts during November 2019 . Open interest (OI) at the end of November was 131 million contracts. Read more

CHICAGO , Nov. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group's Center for Innovation today announced that Citadel Founder and CEO Ken Griffin is the 15th recipient of the CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award. CME Group presented the award at the 12th annual Global Financial Leadership Conference in Read more

CHICAGO , Nov. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --  CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it will launch Block Cheese futures and options in January 2020 , pending regulatory review. "Our clients continue to look for tools to manage their price exposure Read more

CHICAGO , Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group today announced that Alex J. Pollock will step down from the company's Board of Directors effective November 15 as he accepts a new role within the U.S. Treasury Department as Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Research . Read more

CHICAGO , Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced options on its Bitcoin futures contracts will be available for trading starting Jan. 13, 2020 , pending regulatory review. Read more

CHICAGO , Nov. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc., the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today declared a fourth-quarter dividend of $0.75 per share, payable December 27, 2019 , to shareholders of record as of December 10, 2019 . Read more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. and CHICAGO , Nov. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Purdue University /CME Group Ag Economy Barometer improved 15 points to a reading of 136 in October. The upswing is attributable to 15-point increases in both of the barometer's sub-indices. Read more

CHICAGO and LONDON , Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and Kpler, the widely used provider of transparency solutions to commodity markets, today announced that Kpler users will now have access to CME Group's LNG and natural gas Read more

CHICAGO , Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group , the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached average daily volume (ADV) of 17 million contracts during October 2019 , down 17% from October 2018.  Open interest (OI) at the end of October was 132 million contracts, up 3% Read more

LONDON and  NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EBS, a leading provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in foreign exchange markets, today announced that it has conducted the first ever African NDF trade conducted on a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) trading platform. Read more

CHICAGO , Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2019. The company reported revenue of $1.3 billion and operating income of $685 million for the third quarter of 2019.  Net income was $636 million and diluted earnings per Read more

CHICAGO , Oct. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group is appalled by the allegations that an individual at the Board of Trade building spit on Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) members who were protesting on LaSalle Street yesterday. While our company no longer owns the 141 W. Read more

CHICAGO , Oct. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group regularly monitors its markets for suspicious activity. As it relates to the Vanity Fair article published on October 17, 2019 , regarding activities in the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract, the allegations about the trading activity are patently Read more

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