CME Asia interest grows with S&P index launch

14 Oct 2005

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has further expanded its drive into Asian markets by announcing that it has planned to launch futures contracts based on the Standard and Poor's Asia 50 Index, which it described as the only pan-Asian equity index, tracking the 50 largest stocks in Hong Kong,...

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“The introduction of these contracts to trading represents a new stage in developing the Russian market in fixed income instruments as in essence futures on federal bonds are derivatives on long-term interest rates.”

Evgeny Serdyukov, director of F&O at RTS