CHICAGO and LONDON, Dec 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, announced today that the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has granted CME, a CME Group Company, the status of a Recognized Body within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The DFSA is the ... Read more
CHICAGO, Dec 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) announced today that Chief Executive Officer Craig Donohue will present at the Goldman Sachs Financial Services CEO Conference 2007, to be held at The Pierre in New York City on December 12 at 1:30 p.m. (Eastern Time).
The presentation will be ... Read more
CHICAGO, Dec 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, will close its trading floors at both the CME and CBOT buildings on Tuesday, December 25 and Tuesday, January 1, 2008, in observance of Christmas and New Year's Days. Abbreviated trading hours will be held for certain pr... Read more
CHICAGO, Dec 03, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, today announced November volume averaged 13.0 million contracts per day, up 41 percent from November 2006, and second only to August in terms of highest monthly average daily volume during 2007. Total electronic volume a... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 28, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange and the largest regulated marketplace for foreign exchange (FX) trading, today announced that is has expanded its FX team by appointing K.C. Lam as Director and Head of Asian FX Sales. This new position was created to bet... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 14, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, will close its trading floors at both the CME and CBOT buildings on Thursday, November 22 in observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving Day. Abbreviated trading hours will be held for certain products on both Wednesday, Novembe... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 07, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) today declared a fourth-quarter dividend of 86 cents per share, payable December 26, 2007, to shareholders of record as of December 10, 2007.
CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com) is the world's largest and most diverse exchange. Formed by t... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 06, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- In the news release, CME (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) Announces Veterans Day Holiday Hours, issued earlier today by CME Group over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the last sentence under the paragraph for "Sunday, November 11," should read "Financials* on e-cbot remain c... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 06, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, has announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the Veterans Day holiday (all times are Central time). This schedule includes CME and CBOT products. FXMarketSpace(TM) will observe its regular schedule fo... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 05, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, announced the extension of its electronic trading hours for mini-sized corn, soybean and wheat futures contracts beginning November 9. The mini agricultural contracts will trade electronically side-by-side with the grain... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 05, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) announced today that the Chief Executive Officer Craig Donohue will present at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods 2007 Securities Brokerage & Market Structure Conference, to be held at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York on Tuesday, November 6 at 3:0... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, today announced October volume averaged 9.5 million contracts per day, up 14 percent from October 2006. Total electronic volume averaged 7.7 million contracts per day, up 28 percent from the prior October. Total volume e... Read more
CHICAGO, Nov 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange and the largest regulated marketplace for foreign exchange (FX) trading, today announced plans to offer volatility-based quoting on six of its FX options on futures contracts: Euro FX, British pound, Japanese yen, Canadia... Read more
CHICAGO, Oct 31, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, announced this month the launch of the FIX/FAST(SM) market data format, which allows customers to receive market data more efficiently.
Based on FIX(SM) and FAST(SM) market data protocols, FIX/FAST is aligned with in... Read more
CHICAGO, Oct 24, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) today reported total revenues increased 106 percent to $565 million and net income increased 94 percent to $202 million for third-quarter 2007 compared with third-quarter 2006. Diluted earnings per share rose 31 percent to $3.87 from $2.95. Th... Read more
CHICAGO, Oct 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, and the Korea Exchange (KRX), a premier capital market place for Northeast Asia, announced today that they intend to enter into an agreement for the KOSPI 200 futures contract to be listed on CME Globex(R), the electroni... Read more
CHICAGO and SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, and the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange S.A. (BM&F), the world's fourth largest derivatives exchange and the largest derivatives exchange in Latin America, announced today that they have sig... Read more
CHICAGO, Oct 05, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, announced today that for the first time it surpassed one billion contracts traded electronically on CME Globex(R), the exchange's electronic trading platform, in a single year, excluding non-traditional TRAKRS(R) futures... Read more
CHICAGO, Oct 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, has announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the Columbus Day holiday (all times are Central time). Please note: this includes CME and CBOT products.
Friday, October 5 Unless noted below a... Read more
CHICAGO, Oct 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, today announced September volume averaged 11.6 million contracts per day, up 25 percent from September 2006. Third-quarter 2007 volume averaged a record 12.7 million contracts per day, up 49 percent, assuming combined CM... Read more