CME Group Inc. operates two self-regulatory futures exchanges, CME and CBOT. The company offers an array of products available across various asset classes, including futures and options on futures based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, and alternative investments, such as weather and real estate. It provides various products that provide a means for hedging, speculation, and asset allocation relating to the risks associated with interest rate sensitive instruments, equity ownership, changes in the value of foreign currency, and changes in the prices of commodities. The company also owns a clearing house, CME Clearing. In addition, CME Group offers market data and information products, as well as involves in real estate business. Its primary trade execution facilities consist of its CME Globex electronic trading platform and open outcry trading floors, as well as privately negotiated transactions that are cleared and settled through its clearing house. The companyÂ’s customer base includes professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, and governments worldwide. It has strategic relationships with BM&F, China Foreign Exchange Trade System and National Interbank Funding Center, NYMEX, Reuters, and Singapore Derivatives Exchange, Ltd. CME Group was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
$249.5 (04/15/09)
