CME Group Reports January 2008 Volume

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, today announced January volume averaged 14.3 million contracts per day, up 65 percent from January 2007, and second only to August 2007 in terms of highest monthly average daily volume.

Total volume exceeded 300 million contracts for the month, of which 79 percent was traded electronically. Total electronic volume averaged 11.4 million contracts per day, up 79 percent from the prior January.

CME Group E-mini equity index daily volume averaged a record 3.9 million contracts per day in January, up 126 percent compared with January 2007. CME Group interest rate volume averaged 8.7 million contracts per day in January, up 57 percent from January 2007, and representing the second-highest monthly volume to date. CME Group commodities and alternative investments volume averaged 906,000 contracts per day in January, up 17 percent compared with the same period a year ago, and representing the second-highest monthly volume to date. CME Group foreign exchange volume averaged 596,000 contracts per day in January, up 21 percent versus January 2007.

Record NYMEX energy and metals volume on the CME Globex platform increased 42 percent to average 953,000 contracts per day. Other monthly electronic trading volume records reached in January 2008 include electronic Eurodollar futures volume, increasing 76 percent to 3.2 million contracts per day, and electronic commodities and alternative investments volume, increasing 66 percent to 516,000 contracts per day.

All references to volume and rate per contract information in the text of this document assume combined legacy CME and legacy CBOT volumes and exclude our non-traditional TRAKRS products, for which CME Group receives significantly lower clearing fees than other CME Group products, and Swapstream products. -- www.cme.com

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