CHICAGO, July 5 (Reuters) - Trading volume at the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange rose 22 percent in June to about 326.8
million contracts, from about 267.9 million in June 2010, the
CME Group said in their monthly volume report.
The year-to-date volume through June 2011 was about
1.7 billion contracts, compared with nearly 1.6 billion
contracts for the same period in 2010, an increase of 8.7
percent, the CME said in the report which was posted on its
website on Friday.
The CME Group Inc (CME.O) is the world's largest
derivatives exchange.
Volume breakdowns for key contracts are as follows:
VOLUME VOLUME PERCENT
June 2011 June 2010 CHANGE
Commodity Futures
LIVE CATTLE 1,097,407 785,824 39.7
FEEDER CATTLE 108,807 68,134 59.7
LEAN HOGS 991,400 803,035 23.5
PORK BELLIES 0 292 -100.0
LUMBER 30,740 29,446 4.4
WOOD PULP 0 15 -100.0
BUTTER CS 1,703 727 134.3
Commodity Options
LIVE CATTLE 282,123 140,520 100.8
FEEDER CATTLE 13,619 7,350 85.3
LEAN HOGS 125,573 61,002 105.9
PORK BELLIES 0 0 0.0
LUMBER 496 964 -48.5
MILK 24,230 8,816 174.8
BUTTER CS 105 0 0.0
Interest Rate Futures
EUROYEN 52 2,942 -98.2
EURODOLLARS 62,516,234 36,986,669 69.0
Interest Rate Options
EURODOLLARS 10,616,507 9,270,276 14.5
EURO MIDCURVE 7,820,577 4,896,114 59.7
Equity Index Futures
E-MINI S&P500 59,186,307 61,258,075 -3.4
S&P 500 1,027,261 1,195,283 -14.1
E-MINI MIDCAP 768,346 870,496 -11.7
NASDAQ 43,952 47,702 -7.9
Equity Index Options
E-MINI S&P500 3,202,008 1,800,330 77.9
S&P 500 902,996 937,024 -3.6
E-MINI NASDAQ 100 67,911 25,661 164.6
NASDAQ 21 44 -52.3
FX Futures
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR 2,847,255 2,515,580 13.2
BRITISH POUND 2,683,025 2,906,123 -7.7
CANADIAN DOLLAR 2,213,194 2,120,703 4.4
E-MINI EURO FX 133,345 117,701 13.3
JAPANESE YEN 2,563,314 3,094,857 -17.2
SWISS FRANC 1,074,647 1,066,784 0.7
FX Options
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR 50,963 43,666 16.7
BRITISH POUND 42,512 156,239 -72.8
CANADIAN DOLLAR 52,063 89,166 -41.6
EURO FX 500,832 409,115 22.4
JAPANESE YEN 70,458 86,116 -18.2
SWISS FRANC 17,473 13,018 34.2
GRAND TOTAL 326,776,381 267,859,889 22.0
(Reporting by Meredith Davis; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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