CME Group Sets New Daily Volume Record of 67.1 Million Contracts, Driven by Interest Rate and U.S. Treasury Markets
CME Group achieved a historic milestone on February 25, 2025, setting a new single-day volume record of 67.1 million contracts, surpassing the previous record of 66.2 million from March 2023.
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CME Group achieved a historic milestone on February 25, 2025, setting a new single-day volume record of 67.1 million contracts, surpassing the previous record of 66.2 million from March 2023. The record was primarily driven by exceptional performance in interest rate markets, with new daily records including:
- Interest Rate futures and options: 50.9 million contracts
- U.S. Treasury futures and options: 40.6 million contracts
- 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures: 6.5 million contracts
- Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures: 4.0 million contracts
- U.S. Treasury Bond futures: 2.8 million contracts
CEO Terry Duffy highlighted that investors are increasingly utilizing CME's derivatives for portfolio protection, benefiting from $60 billion in capital efficiencies across asset classes, including $20 billion in daily margin savings in interest rates.
Positive
- Record-breaking daily trading volume of 67.1M contracts
- New records in multiple Treasury product categories
- $60B in capital efficiencies across asset classes
- $20B daily margin savings in interest rates
- Strong market position in risk management solutions
Negative
- High trading volume suggests market uncertainty and volatility
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The company also hit new daily volume records in its deeply liquid interest rate complex on February 25:
- Interest Rate futures and options – 50,924,122 contracts
U.S. Treasury futures and options – 40,664,890 contracts- 2-Year
U.S. Treasury Note futures – 6,543,368 contracts - Ultra 10-Year
U.S. Treasury Note futures – 4,076,504 contracts U.S. Treasury Bond futures – 2,831,906 contracts
"Amid heightened uncertainty, market participants are turning to CME Group's deeply liquid futures and options, resulting in new records for our overall volume, interest rate complex and
CME Group provides the market's leading tools for managing risk across the entire yield curve with
As the world's leading 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.
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