Tag: CME Group

Forex Weekly Look Back
November 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Cboe Futures ADV falls 23% MoM, PrimeXM trading volumes up 4.5% MoM in October

Stock markets globally gained yesterday as Democratic nominee Joe Biden neared victory in the US presidential election. On a monumental day that saw Biden gather the most votes of any Presidential candidate in history, US stock futures then extended those gains yesterday evening as more states turned blue. The big winners were technology giants and…

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CME Group
November 04, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group reports almost 9% MoM decrease with 15.4 million contracts in October

Agricultural ADV for the company was 1.6 million contracts. Foreign Exchange ADV registered 704,000 contracts and Metals ADV of 529,000 contracts. Additional highlights from October include: Equity Index ADV grew 60% from October 2019 Micro E-mini Equity Index futures ADV of 2.1M. Micro E-mini futures and options represented 38.2% of overall Equity Index ADV during October 2020 SOFR…

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Forex Weekly Look Back
October 30, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: CMC Markets partners with Gold-i, Plus500 revenue jumps 96% YoY in Q3

IronFX has launched IronFX Trading School, an online trading educational page which will offer support to beginner, as well as professional traders. The IronFX Trading School will deliver tools, educational articles and trading strategies to help traders achieve their trading goals. IronFX’s traders and investors will have access to a range of trading resources to…

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CME Group
October 28, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group reports 15% YoY drop in revenue for the third quarter

CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy commented: Despite the many challenges created by the ongoing pandemic, our metals, equities, agriculture and data services businesses showed strong performance during the third quarter. Likewise, we continued to innovate amid the extreme uncertainty, announcing a number of new products and services across asset classes, including…

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Forex Weekly Look Back
October 09, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: FCA bans retail sale of crypto derivatives, CME Group launches TreasuryWatch Tool

Global commodities specialist Marex Spectron announced the appointment of Phillip Price as head of ferrous metals trading. At his new position, Price will report to Simon van Den Born, President of the Group. Price joined the firm in September 2020 and has been instrumental in the development of the global steel derivatives market over the past…

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CME Group
October 07, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group adds new TreasuryWatch Tool to its offering

The new tool has additional capabilities which allow users to: Track and chart recent, historical and forecasted Treasury auction sizes by tenor and by gross coupon issuance. View yield data for cash treasuries, US treasury futures and short-term interest rate futures. View upcoming high impact US economic events. Quickly access key industry resources from the…

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Forex Weekly Look Back
September 04, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Edgewater Markets launches trading platform EdgeFXLatam, CME Group sets records for metals trading in August

Global digital asset exchange, Gate.io announced its partnership with crypto-friendly hotel booking platform Travala.com to integrate GateToken (GT) on the travel website’s platform. Users of the website can book more than 2.2 million hotels across 230 countries. Travala.com will accept crypto assets including GateToken, Bitcoin, Ethereum and AVA (Travala’s native cryptocurrency for bookings). Digital wealth manager…

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CME Group
September 01, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group to launch Micro E-mini Options

Some of the Micro E-mini equity futures highlights include: 186 million cumulative Micro E-mini S&P 500 future contracts added and 131 million cumulative Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts traded since launch. Each day, on average, 1.5 million contracts were traded in 2020 in both futures products together. 30% of the trading volume of both futures…

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