CME Group closed 2008 with a record number of 3.3 billion contracts. Daily trades increased by 4% compared to 2007 and electronic trades also made an increase of 12%. This makes it their eighth year of record volume.
Total equity index volume saw an increase of 37% prior to 2007 with an average of 3.5 million contracts a day.
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