Chicago Board of Trade (CBoT) recorded a new daily trading volume in options contracts on 7 June. The new record, 1.15m contracts surpasses the previous record of 1.12m contracts, set on 14 April, 2004.
CBoT also recorded a number of open interest records 11 June. Open interest in soybeans set a new record of 1.07m surpassing the previous record of 1.06m, set 7 June. Daily open interest in energy also reached a new peak of 6,031 contracts exceeding the previous high of 6,010 contracts, set 8 June.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), traded 13.17m futures and options contracts on 7 June, making it the exchange's second busiest day. It was also the second highest volume day for CME products trading electronically on CME Globex, with 10.14m contracts traded. CME's busiest day was 27 February.
New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) set daily volume records...