Nymex records 29% increase in trading
The New York Mercantile Exchange has said that average daily volume totalled 1.83m contracts for June 2008, a 29% increase from 1.41m contracts per day in June 2007.
Nymex electronic volume executed on the CME Globex electronic trading platform averaged 889,268 contracts per day for June 2008, representing a 40% increase over 634,390 contracts per day in June 2007 electronic volume. NYMEX floor-traded energy futures and options averaged 218,189 contracts per day for June 2008.
US options on OCC soar to new recordThe Options Clearing Corporation has set a new daily trading volume record on July 15 when 25.26m contracts were traded. The new record is a 6.4% increase on the previous record of 23.75m contracts set on August 16, 2007.Equity options trading set a new record with 22.94m contracts trading, a 10.7% increase over the previous record of 20.73m...