$CME said its 2Q17 average daily volume reached 16.5MM contracts, up 7% YoY.  Options volume averaged 3.6MM contracts per day, up 21%, while interest rate options and energy options average daily volume grew 37% and 22%, respectively. Open interest at the end of June, 2017, was 113MM contracts, up 7% YoY.

$CME has received regulatory clearance from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to provide clearing services for over-the-counter FX options.

$CME announced that May 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 16.5MM contracts, up 11%. CME Group's monthly options volume averaged 3.4MM contracts per day, up 21%.

$CME's shareholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for 2017. The shareholders also approved the amended and restated $CME Omnibus Stock Plan.

$CME's shareholders elected Terrence Duffy, Timothy Bitsberger, Charles Carey, Dennis Chookaszian, Ana Dutra, Martin Gepsman, Larry Gerdes, Daniel Glickman, Leo Melamed, Alex Pollock, John Sandner, Terry Savage, William Shepard and Dennis Suskind each for a one-year term expiring in 2018.

$CME declared a 2Q17 dividend of $0.66 per share, payable June 26, 2017, to shareholders of record as of June 9, 2017.

$CME said it set a total open interest record of 125.7MM contracts on May 11, 2017. The new record follows four consecutive record open interest days. Prior to this 4-day streak, the previous open interest record of 123.1MM contracts was set on March 9, 2017.

$CME said that April 2017 average daily volume reached 16.3MM contracts, up 18% YoY. April 2017 options volume averaged 4MM contracts per day, up 52%, while electronic options averaged 2.4MM contracts per day, up 53%. Open interest at the end of April was 121MM contracts, up 10% from the end of April 2016.

$CME paid dividends during 1Q17 of $1.3Bil, consisting of the annual variable dividend for 2016 of $1.1Bil and the regular first-quarter dividend of $223MM. $CME has returned over $7.7Bil to shareholders in the form of dividends since the implementation of the variable dividend policy in 2012.

Financial markets company $CME posted 8.7% increase in net earnings in 1Q17, riding on record average daily volume that reached 17.1MM contracts. Net income rose to $400MM, or $1.18 per share, from $368MM, or $1.09 per share in the year-ago quarter. EPS on an adjusted basis was $1.22. Revenue edged down 0.5% to $929.3MM.

$CME Group announced that it intends to close CME Europe and CME Clearing Europe by 2017 year-end.

$CME's average daily volume reached 16.9MM contracts in March 2017, up 18% from March 2016. Options volume was up 47% to 4MM contracts per day, while open interest grew 8% to 114MM contracts.

$CME announced Copper futures open interest surpassed 300,000 contracts on February 13, 2017. Copper ended the trading session with a total of 300,996 contracts open interest, surpassing the previous record of 297,830 set on February 1, 2017.

$CME's BoD declared 1Q dividend of $0.66 per share, a 10% increase from the prior rate of $0.60 per share. The dividend is payable on March 27, 2017 to shareholders of record as of March 10, 2017.

$CME's average daily volume (ADV) during Jan 2017 reached 16MM contracts per day, down 12% from Jan  2016. Options volume in Jan 2017 was 3.4MM contracts per day, down 19% versus January 2016.

$CME's average daily volume for 4Q16 grew 24% to 16.3MM contracts from 4Q15. Clearing and transaction fee revenue increased 13% to $769MM from last year. Total average rate per contract slid to $0.731 from $0.75 last quarter, on larger proportion of interest rate volume as well as higher member trading.

$CME reported a rise in 4Q16 earnings driven by more than 12% increase in its trading volume and continued demand for diverse risk management products and services. Net income rose to $373.4MM or $1.10 per share from $291.7MM or $0.86 last year. Revenue grew to $912.9MM from $813.8MM. Adjusted EPS increased to $1.14 from $0.97.

$CME cleared a record 1 trillion in Mexican peso (MXN) interest rate swaps in a single day on Jan. 12, 2017, an equivalent of more than $47Bil in notional value. Jan. 12 cleared notional surpassed the previous record of MXN 659Bil ($32Bil) set on Dec. 16, 2016.

$CME's equity index volume averaged 2.9MM contracts per day in 4Q16, up 5% from 4Q15. Agricultural volume averaged 1.2MM contracts per day in 4Q16, down 1% from 4Q15.