For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – September 18, 2024 – Today, Zacks Equity Research discusses Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) , CME Group (CME) , Nasdaq Inc. (NDAQ) , Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) and MarketAxess (MKTX) . Industry: Securities and Exchanges Link: https://www.zacks.com/commentary/2337271/5-securities-and-exchanges-stocks-to-watch-amid-marketvolatility Compelling and diversified product portfolios help drive revenues of Zacks Securities and Exchanges industry players. An increase in trading vol ...

CHICAGO, Sept. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy will participate in a fireside chat at the 22nd Annual Barclays Global Financial Services Conference in New York on Monday, September 9, at 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time. The presentations will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed on the Investor Relations section of the company's website. Please allow extra time prior to the present ...

Shares of CME Group Inc. (CME) have gained 6.1% in the past year, underperforming the industry and the Zacks S&P 500 composite's growth of 20.3% and 23.6%, respectively. CME Lags Industry and S&P Image Source: Zacks Investment Research CME Group's diversified product portfolio is significantly exposed to extreme interest rate volatility, currency fluctuation, strict government regulations and limited credit availability. The current unstable capital and credit markets can hamper liquidity and cause a declin ...

Klaus Vedfelt Introduction I spend a lot of time on X (formerly known as Twitter) - probably more than I should. Lately, two things have started to stand out to me: We often discuss consumer weakness. Companies like Dollar General (DG) are seeing tremendous pressure on the lower-income consumer. Even McDonald's (MCD), which is usually protected against consumer weakness, had to come up with measures to grow its sales. While the lower and middle class are struggling, investors with stock market exposure seem ...

Record interest rate ADV of 18.3 million contracts Record U.S. Treasury futures and options ADV overall, including record volume for 2-year, 5-year and 30-year futures contracts Record August ADV in equity index, agricultural, foreign exchange and options products Record international ADV of 8.9 million contracts CHICAGO, Sept. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported its second-highest monthly volume ever, with average daily volume (ADV) up 31% to 31.7 ...

BofA Securities analyst Craig Siegenthaler downgraded CME Group Inc CME to Underperform from Neutral, lowering the price target from $212 to $177. The company now faces competition on three fronts from BGC Group, Inc. BGC, Cboe Global Markets, Inc. CBOE, and Intercontinental Exchange Inc. ICE. This intensifying rivalry could result in market share losses and pricing pressures, the analyst cautions. The analyst projects CME to reduce its pricing on interest rate futures by over 10% as a defensive strategy, g ...

CHICAGO, Sept. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that open interest in its deeply liquid SOFR futures set a new record of 12,701,232 contracts on August 28, as the product's average daily volume (ADV) reached a record 3.5 million contracts year-to-date. "As market participants navigate changing expectations around monetary policy, they are turning, in record numbers, to the deep liquidity of CME Group SOFR futures and options, which are the world ...

Investors in CME Group Inc. (CME) need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. That is because the Sep. 20, 2024 $180 Call had some of the highest implied volatility of all equity options today. What is Implied Volatility? Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied volatility suggest that investors in the underlying stocks are expecting a big move in one direction or the other. It could also m ...

CME Group logo displayed on a phone screen and a laptop keyboard are seen in this illustration photo ... [+] taken in Krakow, Poland on January 29, 2023. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images CME Group's stock (NASDAQ: CME) has largely traded sideways since the beginning of the year and has not seen much change as compared to the 17% rise in the S&P 500 over the same period. In sharp contrast, CME Group's peer Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) is up 25% YTD. We be ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that it will launch two new wheat spread futures contracts on October 14, pending regulatory review. The CBOT Wheat - Euronext Milling Wheat No. 2 Spread futures contract and the KC HRW Wheat - Euronext Milling Wheat No. 2 Spread futures contract will each be U.S. dollar-denominated in metric tons and based on the spread between either CBOT Wheat futures prices or KC HRW Wheat futures prices and Eu ...