The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers a wide range of derivative products, including futures and options on a wide variety of assets. The CME offers a range of commodity futures (gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, agricultural products, etc.) enabling producers, consumers and investors to hedge against price fluctuations or speculate on future price movements. But the CME also offers futures and options on stock indices (such as the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average), interest rate futures (such as US Treasury bills), as well as currency futures. Founded in 1898, the CME has evolved over time to establish itself as a leading global market for futures and options trading. CME Globex (CME's electronic trading platform) provides market access for participants. The CME is regulated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), ensuring high standards of transparency to guarantee market integrity. A pioneer in financial innovation, the CME launched the first currency futures contract in 1972, a revolution in the financial world of the time that finally allowed companies to hedge against exchange rate fluctuations (a crucial development after the end of the Bretton Woods system and the transition to floating exchange rates). A few years later, in 1975, the CME did it again, this time with the introduction of the first interest rate futures contracts. In 2007, the CME merged with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) to create the CME Group, the world's largest futures and options exchange.
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