• Initial Listing of Eleven (11) Baltic Freight Route BALMO Futures Contracts

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      • SER-8111
      • Notice Date
      • 14 March 2018
      • Effective Date
      • 08 April 2018

    • Effective Sunday, April 8, 2018, for trade date Monday, April 9, 2018, and pending all relevant CFTC regulatory review periods, New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (“NYMEX” or “Exchange”) will list eleven (11) new freight route balance-of-month (“BALMO”) futures contracts based on the Baltic Exchange (“Baltic”) price assessments (collectively, the “Contracts”) for trading on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and for submission for clearing via CME ClearPort as provided in the table below.  The related monthly futures contracts’ commodity codes on which the BALMO futures contracts are based are also provided in the table for reference.

      For additional information, please contact:

      Mok Wing Chew         WingChew.Mok@cmegroup.com      +65 6593 5583

      Verena Peternell        Verena.Peternell@cmegroup.com     +44 20 3379 3723

      Please click here for PDF of SER-8111.

      Initial Listing of Eleven (11) Baltic Freight Route BALMO Futures Contracts

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