CME Group March Avg. Volume Contracts Per Day Up 13% - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - CME Group Inc. (CME) said that March 2014 volume averaged 14.1 million contracts per day, up 13 percent compared with March 2013. Total volume for March 2014 was more than 295 million contracts, of which 86 percent was traded electronically.

CME Group interest rate volume averaged 7.0 million contracts per day in March, up 35 percent from March 2013.

CME Group equity index volume in March 2014 averaged 3.2 million contracts per day, up 5 percent from the same period last year.

CME Group said it receives dividends from BM&F BOVESPA or BVMF associated with its 5 percent ownership stake. BVMF declared a regular cash dividend on February 13, 2014, with a second-quarter ex-dividend date. As a result, similar to last year, CME Group will record no BVMF dividend in first-quarter 2014 and will record two dividends in the second quarter.

The first of these dividends will total between $3 and $3.5 million, which compares with the first dividend declared by BVMF in 2013, while the details related to the second dividend have yet to be announced.