March 24, 2011

Iron Ore APO Activity Kicks Off

The Iron Ore 62% Fe, CFR China (TSI) Average Price Option contract, available now for trading on CME Globex and the New York Trading Floor, executed its first trade Friday Mar. 18, 2011, and attained open interest of 90 contracts.

Gold Futures Contracts Set New Highs

Gold futures set a new settlement price record on March 23 when the previous record of $1,437.20, set on March 2, was surpassed to $1,437.90.

Earlier in the month, E-micro Gold futures set a new open interest record of 1,441 contracts on Mar. 10, 2011. This builds on the prior day's record of 1,288 contracts reached on Mar. 9, 2011.

HRC Steel Price Quotes Available through CME E-quotes

Price quotes for U.S. Midwest Domestic Hot-Rolled Coil Steel Index Futures (HR) are now available on www.cmegroup.com. Please follow the link below for more information.

Gold Volatility Index (VIX) Futures on CME Globex and CME ClearPort

The Gold Volatility (VIX) Futures (GVF) contract is now available for trading on CME Globex and CME ClearPort. The contract is based on volatility indexes that combine COMEX options market data on CME Globex for gold with the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index (VIX) methodology. The contract is trading with competitive bid/ask spreads

International Gold Dinner, April 14

Please join us this spring for the biennial Gold Dinner, the world's premier precious metals industry networking event, where special guest speaker Guy Adami will discuss the media's perspective of the gold industry.

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About our guest speaker:

Guy Adami is a television personality, author, financial analyst, and professional investor. He is one of the original "Fast Money Five" on CNBC's Fast Money. In 2008 Mr. Adami joined optionMONSTER with Pete and Jon Najarian as the lead analyst for equities research. He currently writes the subscription product Advantage Point and co-authors Covered Call Investor with Jon Najarian. In September 2010, FOX Sports Radio debuted Stox n Jocks, hosted by Mr. Adami and the Najarian brothers.

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Auramet Trading; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; Deutsche Bank; Dillon Gage Metals Division; Goldman Sachs & Co.; HSBC Bank USA; J.P. Morgan; Mitsui Global Precious Metals; Newedge Group; ScotiaMocatta; Standard Bank; TD Bank; and UBS

CME Clearing Accepts Gold as Collateral

CME Clearing offers an enhanced Performance Bond Collateral schedule that allows firms to post physical gold to CME Clearing to cover non-segregated (NSEG) Performance Bond requirements. For more information, please visit the links below:

 Visit www.cmegroup.com/goldmargin
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