On Monday,?CME Group?announced it reached trading volume and open interest records for its?NYMEX Brent?(BZ) crude oil futures contracts on?Friday, July 11, 2014. Open interest for NYMEX Brent set a record of 101,425 contracts, surpassing the 100,000 contracts milestone for the first time ever. The previous open interest record was 99,520 contracts, which was set on?July 9, 2014.
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Trading volume for NYMEX Brent reached a new record of 137,309 contracts, compared to?June 12, 2014, its previous record day, when volume hit 112,446 contracts. Average daily volume for NYMEX Brent is at a record high of more than 104,000 contract for July to-date.
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NYMEX Brent crude oil futures contracts are listed by and subject to the rules of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Also on Monday, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced that ICE Brent Crude futures achieved a daily volume record of 1,451,481 contracts on Friday too.?The previous daily volume record was 1,221,190 contracts on June 23,?2011.
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Year to date, total contract volume for ICE Brent futures is 80,878,738?contracts while open interest is 1,506,178 contracts as of July 11,?2014. Last month, open interest reached record levels.?