Dual Listing of Financially Settled Crude Oil, Brent Crude Oil, and Natural Gas Calendar Spread Options to Launch at CME Group on the New York Trading Floor and ClearPort Clearing

by Chicago Mercantile Exchange 07 Jan 17:21

CHICAGO, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CME Group, the world’s largest and
most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that financially settled
crude oil, Brent crude oil last day, and natural gas calendar spread options
contracts will trade on the New York trading floor and ClearPort®, scheduled
to begin January 25 for trade date January 26.

The new calendar spread options contracts and their commodity codes will be:
crude oil one-month spread (7A); crude oil two-month spread (7B); crude oil
three-month spread (7C); crude oil six-month spread(7M); crude oil 12-month
spread (7Z); Brent crude oil last day one-month spread (9N); Brent crude oil
last day two-month spread (9B); Brent crude oil last day three-month spread
(9Q); Brent crude oil last day six-month spread (9L); Brent crude oil last
day 12-month spread (9Y); natural gas one-month spread (G8); natural gas
two-month spread (G9); natural gas three-month spread (H9); natural gas
five-month spread (H8); natural gas six-month spread (H7); and natural gas
12-month spread (H6).

The minimum price fluctuation will be $0.01 per barrel for crude oil and
Brent crude oil calendar spread options contracts and $0.001 per MMBtu for
the natural gas calendar spread options contracts. The crude oil and Brent
crude oil contracts will be 1,000 barrels in size and the natural gas
contracts will be 10,000 MMBtu.

The crude oil contract will expire on the business day immediately prior to
the termination of the first underlying month of the spread; the Brent crude
oil contract will expire on the business day immediately prior to the
termination of the first underlying Brent crude oil last day futures month of
the spread; and the natural gas contract will expire on the business day
immediately prior to the termination of the first underlying month of the
spread.

For more information, please visit www.nymex.com.

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derivatives exchange. Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME
Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an
international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on
the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in Chicago
and New York. By acting as the buyer to every seller and the seller to every
buyer, CME Clearing virtually eliminates counterparty credit risk. CME
Clearing also offers $7 billion in financial safeguards to help mitigate
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to operate, invest and grow. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark
products available across all major asset classes, including futures and
options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy,
agricultural commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as
weather and real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol
“CME.”

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SOURCE: CME Group

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