CME Group Sets New Daily Volume Record of 67.1 Million Contracts, Driven by Interest Rate and U.S. Treasury Markets

, /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported it reached a new, single-day volume record of 67,124,571 contracts traded on February 25. This surpasses the previous record of 66,256,756 contracts set on March 13, 2023. The company also hit new daily volume records in its deeply liquid interest rate complex on February 25: Interest Rate futures and options – 50,924,122 contracts U.S. Treasury futures and options – 40,664,890 contracts 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures – 6,543,368 contracts Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures – 4,076,504 contracts U.S. Treasury Bond futures – 2,831,906 contracts "Amid heightened uncertainty, market participants are turning to CME Group's deeply liquid futures and options, resulting in new records for our overall volume, interest rate complex and U.S. Treasury markets," said CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy. "As investors seek to protect their portfolios, CME Group remains focused on providing innovative risk management solutions and $60 billion in unparalleled capital efficiencies across asset classes, including $20 billion in daily margin savings in interest rates alone." CME Group provides the market's leading tools for managing risk across the entire yield curve with U.S. Treasuries, SOFR, Fed Funds, €STR and credit products. For more information, please visit www.cmegroup.com/rates. As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC ("S&P DJI"). "S&P®", "S&P 500®", "SPY®", "SPX®", US 500 and The 500 are trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC; Dow Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored, endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in such products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CME-G SOURCE CME Group WANT YOUR COMPANY'S NEWS FEATURED ON PRNEWSWIRE.COM? 440k+ Newsrooms & Influencers 9k+ Digital Media Outlets 270k+ Journalists Opted In

CME Group Sets New Daily Volume Record of 67.1 Million Contracts, Driven by Interest Rate and U.S. Treasury Markets

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