NYMEX Holdings announced that average daily volume was 1.826 million contracts for June 2008, a 29% increase from 1.414 million contracts per day in June 2007. NYMEX Holdings is the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange Inc-the world’s largest physical commodities futures and options exchange. NYMEX electronic volume on the CME Globex electronic trading platform averaged 8,89,268 contracts per day for June 2008, representing a 40% increase over 6, 34,390 contracts per day in June 2007. NYMEX floor- traded energy futures and options averaged 2, 18,189 contracts per day for June 2008.
COMEX electronic volume on CME Globex averaged 1, 68,701 contracts per day for June 2008, and represented a 65% increase over 1,02,307 contracts per day in June 2007 electronic volume.