Starting July 31*, Monday and Wednesday Weekly options on WTI Crude Oil futures will be available alongside popular Friday expirations and benchmark monthly options. 

WTI Weekly options can be used to precisely hedge weekend headline risk, OPEC+ meetings, or unexpected weather events. They can also be used to express views on mid-week announcements, including the weekly EIA Petroleum Status Report.

Weekly WTI Crude Oil options are the fastest growing energy product at CME Group, reaching a single-day volume record of more than 21K contracts on July 7. WTI is the only crude oil benchmark with robust, around-the-clock liquidity in Friday Weekly options.

Open interest in CME Group WTI Midland and WTI Houston reached record levels this June at 461K contracts, as the market responds to the inclusion of WTI Midland in the Dated Brent Index.

Environmental mandates are leading to a push for 10% ethanol in European gasoline. This change will bring Europe further in line with the U.S., increasing the role RBOB Gasoline futures can play as an international benchmark.

Henry Hub options volume continues to grow year-over-year with open interest at 3.5M contracts, up 30% from 2022. Henry Hub options have 24-hour streaming screen markets with consistent liquidity through summer 2024, including Friday Weekly options for more precise hedging. 

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European Union Allowance (EUA) futures and options provide delivery of physical allowance credits in accordance with the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS). The EU-ETS is a cap-and-trade system based on a Directive of the European Parliament, operating in all European Union countries, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

EUA futures and options can serve as a price discovery and risk management tool to help meet regulatory greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.

This May, Boston, Burbank, Houston, Philadelphia, Essen, and Paris were added to the Weather futures suite, which already encompasses nine cities across the U.S. and three international locations.  

As the impacts and risks associated with adverse weather and climate change continue to grow, so has the demand for financial products offering protection to these scenarios.

Our Weather futures and options complex has achieved a record open interest of 200K contracts, while experiencing a 235% increase in average daily volume compared to 2022.

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