New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) set an all time average daily volume record for January of 1.65m contracts per day, a 45% increase on the 1.1m contracts per day in the same period last year. Nymex's electronic volume on Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)'s Globex electronic trading platform was 625,000 contracts per day - a 538% increase over the January 2006 electronic volume on Nymex Access. Meanwhile, Nymex's floor-traded energy futures and options averaged 396,000 contracts per day for January. ADV on Nymex's ClearPort OTC clearing platform increased 57% last month to 418,000 contracts, from 266,000 contracts in thecomparable period of 2006.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has reported record volume during January with figures that more than doubled the levels from a year earlier. ADV for ICE Futures, ICE's UK-based regulated futures subsidiary, was a record 574,170 contracts, an increase of 153.6% over ADV in January last...