CME announced today that it reached an open interest record across asset classes standing at 103,387,860 open positions as of August 7, 2014. This exceeds the previous record of 103,056,895 contracts on August 25, 2011. ?

Total CME Group volume for trading date August 7, 2014 was 13.8 million contracts and August average daily volume to date is 14 million, up 33 percent compared to August 2013 to date.