The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that its 5-year Swap futures contracts established a new volume record on Tuesday, as trading surpassed the 20,000 contract mark for the first time. The new record, 20,360 contracts, was 52 percent greater than the previous record – 13,385 contracts set on December 2, 2005. Volume in the Exchange’s 10-year Swap futures was 22,861 contracts yesterday.
Singapore Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) are pleased to commence the first day of trade for the Joint Asian Derivatives Exchange (JADE) today. JADE, a market division of SGX Derivatives Trading Ltd, launches its debut in commodities futures trading with TSR 20 Rubber Futures Contract.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced today that it plans to expand the availability of its options on Full-sized Gold (100 oz.) and Silver (5,000 oz.) futures by listing the contracts on its open auction trading floor, side-by-side with the e-cbot® electronic trading platform, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2006. Currently, the contracts trade exclusively on e-cbot, the Exchange’s electronic trading platform.
The London Stock Exchange today announced that it will launch a new market segment for Exchange Traded Commodities. The market segment, the first of its kind in the world, will contain 32 exchange traded commodities and commodity indices, including 29 issued tomorrow by ETF Securities Ltd.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today that its Full-sized (100 oz.) Gold futures contract achieved a new volume record of 69,432 contracts at close of trading yesterday, surpassing the previous record of 63,471 contracts set on July 17, 2006.
