New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) announced that on 4 November a record 147,153 off-exchange contracts were cleared through the exchange's ClearPort, exceeding the previous record of 137,195 contracts on 16 September. Cleared volume through 4 November totaled 10.8m contracts for crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, electricity, and coal compared with the 6,004,276 contracts during the entire of 2003.
Chicago Board of Trade (CBoT) announced that on 5 November 2004, the exchange traded 4.3m contracts, the second highest total volume for a single trading session in the exchange's history. Of that total, 2.9m contracts were traded electronically, a new record that surpassed the previous high of 2.4m contracts set on 31 August. In addition, CBoT futures and options each set electronic trading volume records.
CBoT also set a new record in 10-Year T-Note futures open interest, 1.81m on 10 November...