CHICAGO, Jan. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced it will launch a suite of micro grain and oilseed futures contracts on February 24, 2025, pending regulatory review. These contracts will be cash-settled and one-tenth the size of the company's Corn, Wheat, Soybean, Soybean Oil and Soybean Meal futures.

"Our benchmark grain and oilseed futures products are the most liquid and highly-utilized markets in global agriculture today," said John Ricci, Managing Director and Global Head of Agriculture at CME Group. "These smaller-sized contracts will provide additional flexibility for market participants to manage their agricultural portfolios with greater precision." 

CHICAGO, Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced its plans to launch physically-delivered Hard Red Spring Wheat futures and options in early Q2 2025, pending regulatory approvals.

"By adding Hard Red Spring Wheat futures and options, market participants will now be able to manage price risk across every major type of wheat on one exchange and all cleared in a single clearing house," said John Ricci, Managing Director and Global Head of Agricultural Products at CME Group.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmer sentiment drifted lower in December as the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer dropped 9 points to a reading of 136. The decline was driven by producers' weaker perspective on current conditions in U.S. agriculture and their farms, with the Index of Current Conditions falling 13 points to 100. Although the Current Conditions Index declined this month, it remains 24 points above its low in September and 5 points higher than in October. The Index of Future Expectations also fell 8 points to 153, remaining 59 points above its September low and 29 points higher than the October reading. This month's survey was conducted from Dec. 2-6, 2024.

CHICAGO, Jan. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc. will announce earnings for the fourth quarter and full year of 2024 before the markets open on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Written highlights for the quarter will be posted on the company's website at 6:00 a.m. Central Time, the same time it provides its earnings press release. The company will also hold an investor conference call that day at 7:30 a.m. Central Time, at which time company executives will take analysts' questions. 

A live audio Webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of the company's website. Following the conference call, an archived recording will be available at the same site. Those wishing to listen to the live conference via telephone should dial 877-918-3040 if calling from within the United States, or +1 312-470-7282 if calling from outside the United States, at least 10 minutes before the call begins. The participant passcode for both telephone numbers is 1944793.

CHICAGO, Jan. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported its full-year, Q4 and December 2024 market statistics, showing it reached a record average daily volume (ADV) of 26.5 million contracts during the year, an increase of 9% over 2023. Q4 ADV reached 25.5 million contracts and December ADV reached 22.3 million contracts. Market statistics are available in greater detail at https://cmegroupinc.gcs-web.com/monthly-volume.

CHICAGO, Dec. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, has announced that it will honor the passing of former President Jimmy Carter by implementing an early close for agricultural, equity and interest rate markets on the National Day of Mourning on Thursday, January 9, 2025.

U.S. equity markets will be open until 8:30 a.m. CT on January 9. All U.S. equity options expiring on January 9 will be moved to expire on January 8.

Interest rates and agricultural markets will close at 12:15 p.m. CT on Thursday, January 9.

CHICAGO, Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced it will conduct its 2025 annual meeting of shareholders at 10:00 a.m. Central Time on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Additional information will be provided in the company's proxy statement.

As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. 

CHICAGO, Dec. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that as of November 29, more than 3 billion Micro E-mini Equity Index futures traded across all four indices.

"With over three billion of these contracts traded in less than five years, our Micro E-mini Equity Index futures continue to establish themselves among the most actively traded and deeply liquid index products," said Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equities, FX and Alternative Products at CME Group. "As investors continue to navigate ongoing market uncertainty, index choice is as important as ever. Our breadth of products across every major U.S. index allow clients of all sizes to more nimbly scale index exposure up or down."

CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced it will launch a 1-Ounce Gold (1OZ) futures contract on January 13, 2025, pending regulatory review.

"Gold has always been a popular investment, but retail interest has surged in recent years as more market participants look to diversify their portfolios," said Jin Hennig, Managing Director and Global Head of Metals at CME Group. "1-Ounce Gold futures will broaden opportunities for a wider range of retail traders, providing even more flexibility to access the liquidity and efficiencies that our futures provide."

CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, announced that its Board of Directors approved two initiatives to return capital to shareholders.

The Board declared the company's 2024 annual variable dividend, amounting to $5.80 per share. The dividend is payable January 16, 2025, to shareholders of record on December 27, 2024, and totals approximately $2.1 billion.

In addition, the Board authorized a share repurchase program of up to $3 billion of CME Group Class A common stock, subject to market conditions.