Emini records broken and set

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June 8, 2006 – Quite a Remarkable Trading Day

• CME E-mini S&P 500 Futures Trade 2.7 Million Contracts
  Surpassing previous record of 1.9 million on May 24, 2006


• CME E-mini Futures Trade Nearly 4.3 Million Contracts


• CME Globex Volume Reaches 7.7 Million Contracts
  A new electronic trading record


• Total Trading Volume for all CME Products: 9.7 million*
  Fourth highest volume day ever

Additional Records

CME Equity Futures
New Record - June 8, 2006
Old Record - as dated

• CME E-mini NASDAQ-100® Futures
  New: 884,662 contracts
  Old: 618,825 (Dec 9, 2004)


• CME E-mini Russell 2000® Futures
  New: 508,334 contracts
  Old: 318,062 (June 6, 2006)


• CME E-mini S&P MidCap 400
  New: 87,473 contracts
  Old: 65,847 (Dec 8, 2005)


• CME Nikkei 225™ futures (yen-denominated)
  New: 47,383 contracts
  Old 35,621 (Dec 6, 2005)

Open Interest New Record - June 8, 2006
Total Exchange 50.2 million positions
CME S&P 500 Futures 1.5 million positions
CME E-mini Russell 2000 futures 523,215 positions

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