CME Group launches new gold futures contracts to give traders increased flexibility LeapRate

March 25, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group launches new gold futures contracts to give traders increased flexibility

Derek Sammann, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity and Options Products, CME Group commented: This time of unprecedented market conditions has led to growing demand for a broader range of delivery needs for our clients worldwide. By offering a choice of delivery sizes as well as inter-commodity spreads with our benchmark gold futures,…

February 07, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Bryan Durkin to step down as President of CME Group

CME Group announced yesterday Bryan Durkin’s resignation as President of the company. Durkin will step down in May this year and will serve as a special advisor to the company and report to CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy. CME’s board of directors has put Durkin forward for election to the board…

January 21, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Global markets are all in the red

Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for January 21, 2020. Global markets are all in the red this morning as China reports a fourth death from the deadly new coronavirus. It has also been confirmed that the disease can spread from human to human.…

January 09, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Markets bounce back

Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for January 9, 2020. Markets have bounced back this morning after an apparent de-escalation in the conflict between the US and Iran with President Trump’s retaliation taking the form of sanctions rather than a military response. The S&P…

December 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME reports record FX volume and open interest – What are implications?

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is suddenly reporting that foreign exchange volume and open interest are hitting records never before seen. Volatility in our forex markets have been in gradual decline for years, due in part to the constraints that global central banks have instituted regarding monetary and interest rate policies. CME executives have tried…

December 13, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group FX Futures reach a new single-day volume record

Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced its foreign exchange (FX) futures reached a new single-day volume record of 2.7 million contracts on December 11, 2019. Previous record of 2.5 million contracts was set on June 14, 2017. Open interest (OI) for CME Group FX futures also reached a record 2.3 million contracts on December…

October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group offers real-time futures and options market data on Google Cloud Platform

Derivatives marketplace CME Group has announced that it will become the first derivatives marketplace to offer real-time futures and options market data on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The initiative starts November 17, 2019. Market participants will now be allowed to access CME Group's market data, including all CME Globex market data and third-party data sources,…

October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group reaches record APAC ADV of 1.2m contracts in Q3

Derivatives marketplace CME Group has 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. That's a 61% rise YoY and surpassing the previous quarterly record of 1.1 million contracts traded in second-quarter 2019. Latin America quarterly ADV was 152,000…

Fed to inject billions to bolster liquidity, while cryptos see temporary boost

July 31, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Economists: The Fed should be raising the rates and not cutting them

Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for July 31, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Some crypto supporters claim that you're not a true advocate unless you're running your own node. Well, it seems…

June 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group reports new Open Interest record of 150.4m contracts

Derivatives marketplace CME Group announced last week total open interest (OI) reached a record 150,400,590 contracts on June 11. Since the end of 2018, overall OI has grown 30%. Interest Rate futures and options OI reached a record 109,070,205 contracts. Interest Rate OI increased 41% since the end of 2018. Overall exchange options OI reached a…

Tag: CME Group