All five of the energy complex’s highest-volume days occurred in a single week as traders scrambled to manage risk amid historic crude price swings.
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The world’s largest derivatives exchange is reviving a product class that previously failed to gain traction in the U.S., betting that cash settlement and record equity derivatives demand will change the outcome.
The derivatives marketplace becomes the White Sox’s Official Global Exchange Partner in a multiyear deal that puts the CME logo on all game uniforms starting this spring.
The derivatives exchange recorded 3.3 million contracts in a single day, with Micro Silver futures leading the charge amid heightened market volatility.
The contract is designed to provide market participants with an additional way to gain exposure to silver with lower capital requirements than larger, traditional contracts.
Trading in gold led the way in retail activity last year, the latest data from CME Group suggests, as overall buying and selling in the precious metal surged nearly 3000%.
FanDuel and CME Group have launched a new prediction market platform, FanDuel Predicts, beginning with a phased rollout in Alabama, Alaska, South Carolina, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Derivatives marketplace CME Group has reported a monthly average trading volume of 33.1m contracts for November, its second-highest on record,
Plus500 has partnered with CME Group and FanDuel to provide clearing services for the a new event-based contracts platform, in a ‘historic milestone’ for the broker.
Brokers including IG Group and Capital.com have been forced to stop trading in a swathe of instruments as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) exchange shut down this morning.
Jarabakova spent the last year forming partnerships to market CME Group’s products to retail traders, including one with TradingView.
We speak to Paul Woolman about the launch of spot futures trading, the reasons CME Group launched the product, and why traders like them.
Panbari joins CME Group after almost 14 years at LSEG Data and Analytics. CME is pushing more non-US retail brokers to add ETDs trading.
Record trading volumes on the CME have been heavily driven by trading in speculative products with small contract sizes.
The contest – called The Leap – can be accessed by traders globally and has a prize pool, backed by CME Group, of $25,000.
CME Group said the new micro futures contracts will be one-tenth the size of their existing counterparts and be cash settled.
European regulators will probably ban event contracts, allowing US firms to dominate another market. Also we look at the Axi stockbroker deal.
CME Group has seen a huge increase in the volume of micro contracts being traded, with gold ADV up to its highest levels ever in 2024.