CHICAGO, May 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME
Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives
marketplace, announced total open interest (OI) reached a record
140,537,653 contracts on May 21,
2019. Since the end of 2018, overall OI has grown 22%.
Interest Rate futures and options OI surpassed 100 million
contracts for the first time yesterday, reaching 100,035,345
contracts. Interest Rate OI has been climbing steadily in 2019,
increasing 30% since 2018 yearend. Additionally, options complex OI
reached a record 85,509,328 contracts, growing 36% since the end of
2018.
OI represents the number of active positions that market
participants are holding open without taking delivery or
offsetting, a measure that typically increases during times of
market uncertainty.
CME Group offers the widest range of global benchmark products
across all major asset classes, helping businesses everywhere
mitigate the complex risks they face in today's uncertain global
economy.
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As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading
central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range
of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the
entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and
reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing
services through Traiana.
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