What the Merger Means to Customers
As the largest and most diverse exchange
in the world, CME Group offers customers
access, at a single exchange and on a single
platform, to:
- Interest rate products that span the entire U.S. dollar-denominated yield curve, in addition to products for managing interest rate risk in Europe and Japan. And in fourth-quarter 2007, futures and options products on the Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate Index, the benchmark debt index for U.S. investment-grade fixed income securities, will be added to the product lineup.
- A complete range of products that cover the spectrum of small-, medium- and large-cap benchmark U.S. equity indexes. In addition, several global indexes and unique equity products, including futures and options on Exchange Traded Funds (ETF s) and TRAKRS , the first broad-based index products traded on a futures exchange that can be sold by securities brokers.
- The largest regulated marketplace for foreign exchange derivatives trading, offering 41 futures contracts and 31 options contracts on 19 currencies, including major world currencies and currencies of emerging markets, with average daily notional value of trades worth approximately $80 billion.
- The largest electronically traded agricultural futures complex and the widest range of commodity futures and options on any U.S. exchange, with products offered on grains, livestock, oilseeds, dairy, lumber and other commodities.
- Leading technology that provides global access to benchmark products in all major asset classes around the clock and around the world on the CME Globex platform.
- The leading derivatives clearing facility in the world based on volume, ensuring the creditworthiness of all trades.
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