CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced Thursday that December 2012 volume averaged 9.6 million contracts per day, up 1 percent from December 2011.Total volume for December 2012 was more than 192 million contracts, of which a record 88 percent was traded electronically. Full-year 2012 volume averaged 11.4 million contracts per day, down 15 percent from 2011.
CME Group metals volume averaged 284,000 contracts per day, up 6 percent from the same period last year. Electronic volume averaged 8.5 million contracts per day in December 2012, up 4 percent compared with December 2011. Privately negotiated volume increased 22 percent to 214,000 contracts per day from the prior December. Average daily volume cleared through CME ClearPort was 300,000 contracts in December 2012, down 24 percent compared with December 2011.
CME Group energy volume averaged 1.3 million contracts per day in December 2012, down 6 percent compared with the same period in 2011.