CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it set a total open interest record of 110.1 million on February 3rd. The new record surpassed the previous open interest record of 108.9 million contracts set on November 13, 2014. "We are seeing a number of geopolitical and macro-economic events impacting our…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) on Wednesday announced a dividend of $0.60 per share for the first quarter of 2016. This dividend is 20% higher than the dividend o $0.50 per share for the fourth quarter of 2015 and for the first quarter of 2015. It will be payable on March 28, 2016, to…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today welcomed two new members to its Competitive Markets Advisory Council (CMAC). The new members are Lars Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and 2013 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics; and Randall Kroszner, former member of the Board of…
Read moreThinkLiquidity today announced it has become a registered service provider with CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) to offer transaction reporting for brokers licensed under the Australian Securities Investments Commission (ASIC) to the CME Group ASIC licensed Australian Trade Repository (ATR). ASIC Derivative Transaction Rules apply to all reporting entities if they are in scope, which includes licensed brokers.…
Read moreJust reported was CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME) FX options metrics for December 2015, FX Options ADV reported in at 72,183, -9% YoY, Open Interest stands at 579,109 contracts. Noteworthy in the report, CME set a record in 2015 with FX options ADV up 23% from 2014 and with 96% of FX options now traded electronically. Weekly…
Read moreToday CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) informed us that they've reduced their tick size on EUR/USD futures, so traders can reduce their execution costs. Starting on January 10, CME is officially reducing the minimum price increment for their standard-size EUR/USD futures from 1-pip ($12.50 per contract) to 1/2-pip ($6.25 per contract). Effective Sunday, January 10 (trade date Monday, January 11), the minimum price…
Read moreCME Group foreign exchange volume averaged 884,000 contracts per day for December 2015, up 23% from the 713,000 contracts per day in November 2015, but down 8% from the same month a year ago. The average daily notional value of FX contracts traded in December was $90 billion. Also released, Average daily volume was 9% higher for Forex…
Read moreThe new Circuit Breakers will be active from market open on Sunday January, 10th 2016 for FX contracts. CME Europe Limited the European business of CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has sent out an advisory note today stating they are pleased to announce the introduction of Dynamic Circuit Breakers in Globex for its FX as well as Cocoa contracts.…
Read moreCME Group (NASDAQ: CME) is set to begin it's 2016 version of their trading challenge simulator open to university students, trading is set to commence the first of week January. CME Group's Trading Challenge is a complimentary four-week electronic trading competition where teams of undergraduate and graduate students can trade a variety of CME Group…
Read moreCME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME), the world's largest futures market is said to be exploring opportunities for growth in China and India as it searches for the best markets to enter for higher-margin products to keep up recent profit growth according to reports from Bloomberg. This year CME Group has beat out Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing as the…
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