The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: NMX) today announced that it set daily volume records, including a total daily volume record.
Total contracts traded on CME Globex reached 1,463,971 contracts, surpassing the 1,339,578 contracts traded on November 7, 2007.
Heating oil futures reached 127,000 contracts, topping the previous record of 107,470 contracts traded on February 8.
NYMEX launched its physically settled futures contracts for trading on CME Globex during regular open outcry trading hours on September 5, 2006, following its initial offering of financially settled, standard-sized and NYMEX miNY energy futures contracts for trading on CME Globex on June 12, 2006. On December 4, 2006, NYMEX introduced full-sized and COMEX miNY metals futures contracts for side by side trading. Options trading launched on CME Globex on June 25.
Access to electronic trading of NYMEX energy and metals products is available virtually 24 hours a day on CME Globex.
For more information, go to http://www.nymexoncmeglobex.com/.