June was the Spanish exchange, Meff’s second record-breaking month of the year, with Futures trading on the Ibex 35 totalling 815,812 contracts, surpassing the previous record set in March of 805,225 contracts. Meff has posted half year figures for Ibex 35 Futures of 4.4m contracts, up 38% on 2006. Commenting on the record, Fernando Centelles, CEO said, “The Ibex 35 Future is the European futures contract based on domestic indexes with the fastest growth rate. The key to the contract's success has been the constant growth in liquidity which is the result of the ongoing flow of new members, in particular non-resident members, driven by the high level of connectivity possible with our systems.”Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) ADV of 8m contracts throughout June was up 25% from June 2006. Total monthly volume was 168m contracts. Volume on the CME Globex electronic trading platform averaged a record 6.1m contracts per day,...