CME
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The world's largest derivatives exchange. Hosts trading in interest rate, equity index, FX, commodity, and crypto futures + options.
Subsidiaries: CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade — agricultural futures), NYMEX (New York Mercantile — energy), COMEX (metals). CME Group consolidated all four in the 2000s. Daily volume measured in trillions of notional.
Subsidiaries: CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade — agricultural futures), NYMEX (New York Mercantile — energy), COMEX (metals). CME Group consolidated all four in the 2000s. Daily volume measured in trillions of notional.