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CME Group Inc.

5/18/2013, 6:34 PM ET

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Thursday, May 2, 7:19 AM More on CME Group (CME) Q1 earnings: Average daily volume of 12.5M contracts up 1% Y/Y - interest rate contract volume about flat, but equities +9%, fx +19%. Clearing and transaction fee revenue of $593M off 4%. Market data and information services of $80.9M off 29%. Expenses of $313.1M off 3%. Conference call at 8:30 ET. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Financials]
Thursday, May 2, 7:04 AM CME Group (CME): Q1 EPS of $0.73 in-line. Revenue of $719M beats by $7.12M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Financials]
Thursday, May 2, 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Thursday’s open: ABMD, ACOR, ACT, AEE, ANR, ANSS, ARG, ARQL, ATK, AYR, BDBD, BDX, BEAM, BGCP, BZH, CAH, CEVA, CHD, CI, CME, CNP, CPN, CTRX, DIN, DNR, EL, ELNK, FIG, FLY, FNP, FWLT, GEL, GG, GIL, GM, GNRC, GOLD, HAR, HK, HSH, INCY, INGR, IP, IRDM, IT, ITT, K, LF, LQDT, LXP, MDC, MFC, MGI, MGM, MMC, MMP, MWW, NIHD, NNN, NUS, OCN, OGE, OXF, OZM, PCG, PPL, PWR, PXP, RGLD, RNO, SBH, SFY, SHPG, SNI, SPR, SRE, STRA, TEVA, VMC, VRX, WNR, WPX, WWE, XEL Comment! [Earnings]
Wednesday, May 1, 5:30 PM Notable earnings before Thursday’s open: ABMD, ACOR, ACT, AEE, ANR, ANSS, ARG, ARQL, ATK, AYR, BDBD, BDX, BEAM, BGCP, BZH, CAH, CEVA, CHD, CI, CME, CNP, CPN, CTRX, DIN, DNR, EL, ELNK, FIG, FLY, FNP, FWLT, GEL, GG, GIL, GM, GNRC, GOLD, HAR, HK, HSH, INCY, INGR, IP, IRDM, IT, ITT, K, LF, LQDT, LXP, MDC, MFC, MGI, MGM, MMC, MMP, MWW, NIHD, NNN, NUS, OCN, OGE, OXF, OZM, PCG, PPL, PWR, PXP, RGLD, RNO, SBH, SFY, SHPG, SNI, SPR, SRE, STRA, TEVA, VMC, VRX, WNR, WPX, WWE, XEL Comment! [Earnings]
Wednesday, May 1, 11:44 AM Responding to a WSJ article claiming high-speed traders are using a hidden facet of the CME's computer system to their advantage, the exchange operator promises improvements to "further reduce potential discrepancies," that rarely allow this data to reach the HFT crowd milliseconds before the rest of the world. 5 Comments [Financials]
Monday, April 22, 1:00 PM CME Group admitted to accidentally making public derivatives-trading data that was supposed to be kept secret, upping investor concern about trade-disclosure rules. New rules require price and time data be made public, but the identities of those behind the trades be kept under wraps - something that was violated in this instance. 2 Comments [Financials]
Monday, April 15, 8:10 PM In response to the spike in volatility, CME Group (CME) says it's raising collateral requirements for trading in benchmark gold, silver and other precious metals futures contracts, effective at the close of business Tuesday. Margins to trade Comex 100-troy ounce gold futures will be increased by 19%, silver will increase 18%, palladium 14% and platinum by 19%. Natural-gas futures will also increase 5.6% as well. 16 Comments [Commodities]
Tuesday, April 2, 8:18 AM Credit Suisse takes metaphorical chips off the table, downgrading MS, SCHW, and CME to Hold after nice runs for each has them exceeding price targets established when the bank made them Buys. Morgan's top ideas in the financial sector: GS, LAZ, ICE, APO, BX, CG. 1 Comment [Financials]
Tuesday, April 2, 8:10 AM CME Group reports March volume of 12.5M contracts/day, flat Y/Y. ZIRP continues to eviscerated the once-mighty short-end interest rate sector, with Eurodollar futures trading off 11% Y/Y, and Eurodollar options trading off 49%. Overall interest rate volume fell 7%. (PR) Comment! [Financials]
Thursday, March 28, 11:06 AM CME Group and Nasdaq OMX (NDAQ) go after the HFT crowd, revealing plans for a wireless network to more quickly shuttle pricing information between Chicago and NYC. The plan is notable for the use of wireless technology as most firms still rely on slower, but more reliable and higher-capacity fiber-optic cable to speed orders along. Comment! [Financials]
Monday, March 18, 1:22 PM The CME Group finally opens its European interest-rate swap clearing service, putting the firm in competition with Deutsche Boerse (DBOEY.PK) and LCH Clearnet for what should be the lucrative business of clearing OTC derivatives. Dodd-Frank is combining with EU regulations to force much of the $600T OTC market onto clearing exchanges. Comment! [Financials]
Monday, March 18, 7:59 AM Regulators are looking into whether high-frequency traders routinely distort stock and futures markets by engaging in illegal "wash trades" - those in which the same party acts as buyer and seller in the same transaction. Of concern are the operations at the CME and ICE which regulators feel aren't sophisticated enough to flag the trades. 7 Comments [Financials]
Tuesday, March 5, 2:59 PM CME Group is interested in organic growth rather than M&A says senior managing director Derek Sammann, speaking at a Raymond James conference. His comments follow speculation the CME is pursuing a merger with Deutsche Boerse. Earlier, the exchange - responding to traders' gripes - cut the grain trading day to 17.5 hours from 21. Comment! [Financials]
Monday, March 4, 8:18 AM CME Group reports February volume of 13.7M contracts/day, up 20% from January, up 7% from a year ago. Treasury futures action increased 33% Y/Y to 3.8M contracts, but the once-mighty Eurodollar contract continues to whither, with volume of 1.7M contracts, down 11% Y/Y. (PR) Comment! [Financials]
Monday, February 25, 8:36 AM Apparently not pleased with CME's efforts to draw it into merger talks, Deutsche Boerse (DBOEY.PK) says it is not in any discussion of such with the American exchange operator, and it's focus is on organic growth. Comment! [M&A, Financials]
Monday, February 25, 7:42 AM CME Group has approached Deutsche Boerse (DBOEY.PK) to consider merger talks, reports Bloomberg. Deutsche, of course, recently had its deal to merge with NYSE Euronext quashed by regulators. Comment! [Financials, M&A]

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