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CHICAGO, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today released the following statement on the Enterprise Products Partners L.P. and Enbridge Inc. reversal of the Seaway pipeline: "We're pleased to congratulate Enterprise and Enbridge on the reversal of the Seaway crude oil pipeline," said Bryan Durkin, chief operating officer and managing director, products and services, CME Group. "With its reversal, Seaway will be an...

NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP), one of the world's foremost financial information companies and owner of S&P Indices, and CME Group (NASDAQ: CME), the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace and 90-percent owner of the CME Group/Dow Jones joint venture, announced today an agreement to establish a new joint venture in the rapidly growing index business. Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by the Boards of...

CHICAGO, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Clearing is holding substantial excess margin collateral from MF Global Inc. ("MF Global") and therefore continues to be in a strong financial position, both with respect to MF Global and more generally. MF Global's customer positions on CME Group exchanges were and continue to be substantially over-collateralized at CME Clearing. As of today, the proprietary positions of MF Global have been liquidated with no adverse market impact, leaving a...

ATLANTA, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, reported futures volume in October 2011. Average daily volume (ADV) for ICE's futures markets was 1,610,020 contracts, an increase of 21% from October 2010. Year-to-date through October 31, ADV across ICE's futures exchanges was 1,549,076 contracts, an increase of 17% compared to the first ten months of...

NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished down 3.20% in September compared with a drop of 9.88% for the Dow Jones Global Index. A new monthly commentary offers insight into hedge fund performance through the month of September. Some key findings from the report include: Uncertain market conditions benefitted Dedicated Short Bias - the only sector to post positive performance for the month;Long/Short Equity managers saw declines, although...

CHICAGO, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives exchange, today released the following statement regarding the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)'s rule making on position limits: "CME Group commends the Commission and staff of the CFTC for their efforts to respond to the more than 13,000 comment letters filed on the CFTC's position limits proposal. We also appreciate the Commission's recognition of the need to establish...

CHICAGO, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it reached an open interest record for its power contracts. At the close of trading Friday, open interest in CME Group power contracts reached 1,001,362,363 Megawatt hours (MWh), breaking the billion MWh threshold for the first time ever. CME Group power contracts are listed with, and subject to, the rules of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). "We're very...

ATLANTA, Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today reported activity for September and the third quarter of 2011. ICE's futures average daily volume (ADV) increased 23% in the third quarter of 2011 over the prior year, and grew 17% for the month of September 2011 compared to September 2010. ICE's OTC energy average daily commissions (ADC) were $1.54...

CHICAGO, Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it has appointed Gary Morsches as Managing Director of its energy business. Morsches will be based in New York and will be responsible for leading CME Group's global energy complex, which provides leading benchmark products across the entire energy spectrum. He will join CME Group on September 30, 2011, and will report to Kendal Vroman, Managing Director,...

CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that for the eighth year in a row it has been recognized in the InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. The 2011 list was revealed last night at a gala awards ceremony at the exclusive InformationWeek 500 Conference taking place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point, CA. "As a global company,...