CME Group Inc. operates the CME, CBOT, NYMEX COMEX, and KCBT futures exchanges worldwide. It operates CBOT exchange, a marketplace for trading agricultural and the U.S. treasury futures, as well as options on futures; NYMEX, an exchange for trading energy futures and options contracts, including contracts for crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, and gasoline, as well as over-the-counter energy transactions cleared through CME ClearPort; COMEX, an exchange for trading metal futures and options contracts, such as contracts for gold, silver, and copper; and KCBT, a futures market for hard red winter wheat. The company provides a range of products across various asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather, and real estate. Its products include exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives. The company also offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions on a range of product lines, including interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, foreign exchange, energy, and agricultural commodities. In addition, the company provides market data services, including live quotes, delayed quotes, market reports, and historical data services; index services; and swap data repository service that supports credit, interest rates, commodities, and foreign exchange asset classes. CME Group Inc. executes its trades through CME Globex electronic trading platform, open outcry auction markets, and privately negotiated transactions. CME Group Inc. serves professional traders, financial institutions, individual and institutional investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, and governments. The company was formerly known as Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and changed its name to CME Group Inc. in July 2007. CME Group Inc. was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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