The FINANCIAL — Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., one of the leading operators of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, reported October 2018 trading volume and related revenue statistics.
October highlights include:
Record commodities & energy volume
Brent average daily volume (ADV) up 6% y/y; open interest (OI) up 5% y/y
Record gasoil volume; ADV up 18% y/y; OI up 7% y/y
Natural gas ADV up 20% y/y; OI up 3% y/y including record basis market OI
Record Dutch TTF gas volume
Record emissions ADV up 110% y/y; OI up 24% y/y
Euribor ADV up 64% y/y; OI up 34% y/y
Sterling ADV up 45% y/y
Gilt ADV up 52% y/y; OI up 15% y/y
Ags & metals ADV up 46% y/y; OI up 14% y/y
Equity indices, excluding Russell up 84% y/y
NYSE cash equities ADV up 51% y/y
Equity options ADV up 54% y/y
CDS gross notional cleared up 52% y/y
Launched physically delivered Permian WTI contract and one month and three month SOFR contracts.
