October 13, 2011

The World's Most Liquid Benchmark: Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Futures and Options

To learn more about global benchmark Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) futures and options, please be sure to visit www.cmegroup.com/wti, where you will find a wealth of educational resources and up-to-the minute quote information.

Listing of Three Brent CFD Spread Contracts

Effective for trade date Monday October 17, 2011, the Exchange will list the following three petroleum contracts for trading on the NYMEX trading floor and for submission for clearing through CME ClearPort.

• Brent CFD (Platts) vs. Brent Front Month (Platts) Weekly Swap Futures
• Brent CFD (Platts) vs. Brent Second Month (Platts) Weekly Swap Futures
• Brent CFD (Platts) vs. Brent Third Month (Platts) Weekly Swap Futures

Read Special Executive Report 5965

For more information please contact Richard Stevens at +44 203 379 3790 or Daniel Brusstar at 212 299 2604.

Listing of Two European Diesel Spread Contracts

Effective for trade date Monday October 17, 2011, the Exchange will list two petroleum spread futures contracts for trading on the NYMEX trading floor and for submission for clearing through CME ClearPort.

• ULSD 10ppm CIF MED vs. ULSD 10ppm Cargoes CIF NEW (Platts) Swap Futures
• Diesel 10ppm Barges FOB Rdam vs. ULSD 10ppm Cargoes CIF NEW (Platts) Swap Futures

Read Special Executive Report 5936

For more information please contact Daniel Brusstar at 212 299 2604 or Elizabeth Hui at 212 299 2623.

World Coal Conference 2011: Coaltrans Madrid

Please join CME at the 31st Coaltrans World Coal Conference next week in Madrid, Spain, from October 16-18, 2011.

Backed by the strength and security of CME Clearing and bringing together 17,000 registered users worldwide, CME ClearPort offers clearing services for the widest range of thermal and coking coal derivative products. And, with both intra- and inter-commodity margin offsets available, you are able to put more of your risk management dollars to work. CME will have an exhibition stand at the conference, so please stop by and say hello!

 Read more on Clearing Coal through CME Clearport

Webcast Archive: Energy and Commodities OTC Clearing and Execution under Dodd-Frank Regulation

The "Energy and Commodities OTC Clearing and Execution under Dodd-Frank Regulation" roundtable, hosted by Energy Risk in association with CME Group, SuperDerivatives and KPMG, will be available on-demand soon and will be free to view. A reminder will be sent to all registrants as soon as the roundtable is made available.

Challenges continuously arise regarding energy and commodities OTC clearing, and changes in regulations. This roundtable offers the knowledge, experience and opinions of our elite speakers on some of the key issues the industry currently faces.

The industry expert speakers are:

• CME Group: Thomas LaSala, Managing Director, Chief Regulatory Officer and Tim Doar, Managing Director, Risk Management
• KPMG: John D'Agostino, Advisor, former hedge fund manager and Nymex VP
• CW&T: Gregory Mocek, former CFTC enforcer for 8 years
• ICAP: P Patrick J. McCarty, Managing Director, Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs in the United States, former General Counsel, CFTC
• SuperDerivatives Zohar Hod, VP - Head of Americas & Global Strategic Sales

On-demand, online and FREE: Register here now

Margin Erosion Opportunities for Energy Traders

If you trade financially settled energy contracts, your margin requirements decrease, or erode, as the contract month progresses. If the contracts you trade settle according to an average of daily prices during the settlement month, we ask for margin on only the remaining risk, as a service to you, so you can use that capital more efficiently in other ways. CME Group is the only exchange for energy trading and clearing that offers this feature. Visit CME Group's margins webpage to view full initial and eroded maintenance margins for individual contracts, and to learn more about this process.

Energy Unit Conversion Calculator Available on www.cmegroup.com

Need to know how to convert $/Barrel to $/mmBtu? Want to double-check a 3-2-1 crack spread calculation? Try our online Conversion Calculator, which features the most frequently used conversions for trading in crude oil, refined products, natural gas, coal, crack spreads, spark spreads, and more.

Professional Energy Market Commentary on www.cmegroup.com

Looking for energy market commentary, from the experts, updated throughout the day?

Be sure to check out the Energy Market Commentary, where you will find experienced perspectives to help you make smart energy trading decisions. Commentators include:

• Dominick Chirichella of the Energy Management Institute
• Stephen Schork of the Schork Report
• Dean Rogers and Cynthia Kase of Kase and Co.
• Experts from CME Group Energy

Daily commentaries provide a recap of each product's traded price activity, an analysis of the factors that influenced price activity, a recap of any reports released that day, and a pre-market look ahead at the next day's schedule.

Be sure to bookmark our market commentary section and take advantage of this convenient and comprehensive resource for a variety of asset classes - available at no cost!

 View Energy Market Commentary

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