All-time high ADV for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific (APAC) and CanadaLONDON and SINGAPORE, Jan. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that its international average daily volume (ADV) reached a record 7.8 million contracts in 2024, up 14% from 2023. Reflecting all trading reported outside the United States, this was driven by record growth in Energy up 31%, Metals up 27%, Agricultural up 25%, Interest Rate up 12% and Foreign Exc ...

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CHICAGO, Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced its plans to launch physically-delivered Hard Red Spring Wheat futures and options in early Q2 2025, pending regulatory approvals."By adding Hard Red Spring Wheat futures and options, market participants will now be able to manage price risk across every major type of wheat on one exchange and all cleared in a single clearing house," said John Ricci, Managing Director and Global Head of Agricultural ...

CME Group (CME) has been trading above its 50-day simple moving average (SMA), signaling a short-term bullish trend. Its share price, as of Jan. 6, 2025, was $225.82, down 9.3% from its 52-week high of $249.02.The 50-day SMA is a key indicator for traders and analysts to identify support and resistance levels. It is considered particularly important as this is the first marker of an uptrend or downtrend. CME is the largest futures exchange in the world in terms of trading volume as well as notional value tr ...

CHICAGO, Jan. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc. will announce earnings for the fourth quarter and full year of 2024 before the markets open on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Written highlights for the quarter will be posted on the company's website at 6:00 a.m. Central Time, the same time it provides its earnings press release. The company will also hold an investor conference call that day at 7:30 a.m. Central Time, at which time company executives will take analysts' questions. A live audio Webcast of ...

Record annual ADV in interest rate, agricultural, foreign exchange and metals products Record annual ADV for U.S. Treasury and SOFR complexes Record annual ADV reached outside the U.S. Record Q4 ADV for U.S. Treasury and cryptocurrency complexesCHICAGO, Jan. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported its full-year, Q4 and December 2024 market statistics, showing it reached a record average daily volume (ADV) of 26.5 million contracts during the year, an i ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, has announced that it will honor the passing of former President Jimmy Carter by implementing an early close for agricultural, equity and interest rate markets on the National Day of Mourning on Thursday, January 9, 2025.U.S. equity markets will be open until 8:30 a.m. CT on January 9. All U.S. equity options expiring on January 9 will be moved to expire on January 8.Interest rates and agricultural markets will cl ...

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Share buyback authorizations are useful indicators to stay aware of. Share buybacks are often thought of as an indirect return of capital to shareholders. When a company buys back its shares, it lowers the number of outstanding shares. All else being equal, this increases earnings per share (EPS), which often leads to higher stock prices. They can also indicate that management has confidence in the state of the company. The company must buy shares in the market. They likely wouldn't do so if they believe th ...