Derivatives marketplace CME Group reached average daily volume (ADV) of 19.1 million contracts during March 2019, compared to 20.8 million contracts in March 2018.
In addition, total daily exchange trading volume surpassed 20 million contracts on each of the final six trading days in March.
Open interest (OI) at the end of March 2019 was 126 million contracts, up 9 per cent from year-end 2018 and unchanged from March 2018. First-quarter 2019 ADV marked the third-highest quarterly ADV ever with 18.6 million contracts, down from a record 22.2 million contracts in the first quarter of 2018.
Interest Rate volume averaged 10.4 million contracts per day in March 2019, down 3 per cent from March 2018.
