CME Group Inc.’s daily trading volume rose in September and the third quarter as a whole, the exchange operator said, continuing a trend of growth.
The world’s biggest futures exchange operator has seen traders come back to its markets in recent quarters after the financial crisis drove banks and hedge funds to scale back their investing activity. Though derivatives trading has been strong recently, stock-trading volume has been markedly lower, in part because of lingering worries about the health of the U.S. economy, Europe’s sovereign-debt woes and concerns about growth in China.
CME said its average trading volume rose 15 percent in September from a year earlier and 3 percent from August. For the quarter, growth was 14 percent on year, to 11.6 million contracts a day.
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