CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that June volume averaged 12.2 million contracts per day, up 8 percent from June 2009. Total volume was 268 million contracts for June, of which 84 percent was traded electronically.
Electronic volume averaged 10.3 million contracts per day, up 14 percent from the prior June, while privately negotiated volume decreased 18 percent to 181,000 contracts per day. Average daily volume cleared through CME ClearPort was 452,000 contracts for June 2010, down 6 percent compared with June 2009. Open outcry volume averaged 1.3 million contracts per day in June, down 21 percent versus June 2009.
