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February Trading Volume Down 10% at CBOE in January

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:06 am
by kreslik.news

The Chicago-based exchange operator CBOE Holdings Inc. which is listed on the NASDAQ under ticker CBOE, has just released trading metrics for February that showed a broad decline for its options and futures trading contract totals when compared to the first month of 2016.

Total volume was lower by 10% to 92.9 million contracts traded in February, when compared to the prior month, from across the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and the Chicago Board of Options (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange (C2) business segments operated by the group. While, on a year-over-year basis these totals were up 5% comparatively.

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