The Chicago Board of Trade announced Thursday that, CBOT Corn options hit a record high of more than 1 million contracts in open interest,
Corn options closed at 1,015,594 contracts, surpassing the 1 million mark for the first time in the contract’s history.
As part of an effort to improve global access to its agricultural products, the CBOT will begin trading the on e-CBOT, the exchange’s electronic trading platform.
The CBOT launched its South American soybean and Ethanol futures contracts electronically in May.