CME Overview: Long Track Record of Innovation 

First

financial

futures:

Foreign

Exchange

First

cash-settled

futures:

Eurodollars

First

successful

equity index

futures:

S&P 500?

First global

after-hours

electronic

trading

system:

GLOBEX?

E-mini?

S&P 500

Index futures

First U.S.

financial

exchange to

demutualize

1970

2002 

Revenue

($ in millions)

$4M

$453M

Revenue CAGR ‘70 – ‘00: 14%

Revenue CAGR ‘00 – ‘02: 41%

First IPO of

A U.S.

financial

exchange

$403M

2003

YTD 

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