CHICAGO, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that November 2013 volume averaged 12.1 million contracts per day, up 9 percent compared with November 2012. Total volume for November 2013 was more than 241 million contracts, of which 87 percent was traded electronically.

CME Group interest rate volume averaged 6.0 million contracts per day in November, up 32 percent from November 2012. Eurodollar futures volume averaged 2.0 million contracts per day, up 53 percent from the same period a year ago. Eurodollar options volume averaged 484,000 contracts per day, up 56 percent from November last year. Treasury futures volume averaged 3.0 million contracts per day, up 16 percent compared with the same period a year ago. Treasury options volume averaged 533,000 contracts per day, up 48 percent from November 2012. The Ultra T-Bond achieved a monthly average daily volume record of 133,732 contracts in November 2013.

CME Group foreign exchange (FX) volume averaged 718,000 contracts per day, down 7 percent from November 2012, while FX options volume was up 49 percent. The average daily notional value of FX contracts traded in November was more than $88 billion. CME Group equity index volume in November 2013 averaged 2.2 million contracts per day, down 18 percent from the same period last year.

In November 2013, CME Group agricultural commodities volume averaged 1.2 million contracts per day, up 12 percent compared with the prior-year period. CME Group energy volume averaged 1.5 million contracts per day in November 2013, up 2 percent compared with the prior November. CME Group metals volume in November 2013 averaged 379,000 contracts per day, down 9 percent from November 2012.

In November 2013, CME Group cleared an average $92 billion a day of notional value of OTC interest rate swaps, excluding Thanksgiving. OTC IRS open interest increased 10 percent from the end of October to $8.2 trillion, as 398 market participants have cleared trades at CME Group during 2013.

Note that the KCBT hard red winter wheat average daily volume is included within the CME Group rollup as of April 1, 2013, but not historically prior to that date, following the acquisition which closed on November 30, 2012.



    MONTHLY AVERAGE DAILY VOLUME (ADV)


                                   Total Exchange ADV

                                    ( in thousands)


                                  Nov 2013        Nov 2012
                                  --------        --------

    Trading Days                           20              21


    PRODUCT LINE                  Nov 2013        Nov 2012    Percent Change
                                  --------        --------    --------------

    Interest Rates                      6,017           4,574               32%

    Equity Indexes                      2,213           2,685              -18%

    Foreign Exchange
     (FX)                                 718             775               -7%

    Energy                              1,533           1,505                2%

    Agricultural
     Commodities                        1,220           1,091               12%

    Metals                                379             415               -9%
                                          ---             ---              ---

         Total                         12,079          11,045                9%


    VENUE                         Nov 2013        Nov 2012    Percent Change
                                  --------        --------    --------------

    Open outcry                           966             795               21%

    CME Globex                         10,481           9,670                8%

    Privately
     negotiated*                          633             579                9%

ROLLING THREE-MONTH AVERAGES

Average Daily Volume (In thousands)



                  3-Month Period Ending

     PRODUCT
     LINE         Nov-13                Oct-13        Sep-13        Aug-13

     Interest
     Rates                        5,768         5,790         5,839         6,473

    Equity
     Indexes                      2,599         2,633         2,408         2,696

     Foreign
     Exchange
     (FX)                           725           734           792           913

    Energy                        1,574         1,585         1,609         1,667

     Agricultural
     Commodities                  1,035         1,006         1,009         1,084

    Metals                          334           334           360           394
                                    ---           ---           ---           ---

         Total                   12,034        12,083        12,018        13,226


    VENUE         Nov-13                Oct-13        Sep-13        Aug-13

    Open
     outcry                       1,076         1,150         1,173         1,234

    Electronic                   10,299        10,278        10,199        11,313

     Privately
     negotiated*                    659           655           646           679

*The privately negotiated venue includes both traditional block trades as well as what was historically categorized as CME ClearPort. Going forward there will no longer be a break out for CME ClearPort.

Average Rate Per Contract (In dollars)



                    3-Month Period
                         Ending

    PRODUCT LINE   Oct-13          Sep-13       Aug-13       Jul-13

    Interest Rates           0.482        0.484        0.466        0.461

    Equity Indexes           0.682        0.695        0.711        0.717

    Foreign
     Exchange (FX)           0.823        0.819        0.808        0.806

    Energy                   1.292        1.300        1.282        1.270

    Agricultural
     Commodities             1.292        1.323        1.357        1.383

    Metals                   1.638        1.626        1.623        1.624
                             -----        -----        -----        -----

         Total               0.752        0.762        0.750        0.738

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex(®) electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, which offers clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.

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