{"id":9755,"date":"2009-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"cme-groups-trading-volumes-could-hinge-on-government-rescue-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/cme-groups-trading-volumes-could-hinge-on-government-rescue-efforts.html","title":{"rendered":"CME Group&#8217;s trading volumes could hinge on government rescue efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune &#8211; Government attempts to revive the economy could decide what happens to trading volumes at CME Group Inc. <\/p>\n<p>A $1 trillion federal deficit could flood the market with enough government bonds to stabilize volumes, while a Federal Reserve policy to spur borrowing by keeping interest rates near zero could slice further into volumes at the Chicago-based exchange operator.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Treasury bonds and other interest rate futures represent about 40 percent of the 7.63 million contracts traded daily this month at the CME Group&#8217;s Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-thu-cme-jan29,0,6113225.story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune &#8211; Government attempts to revive the economy could decide what happens to trading volumes at CME Group Inc. A $1 trillion federal deficit could flood the market with enough government bonds to stabilize volumes, while a Federal Reserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5535,6638,4983,2431,4602,6640,6029,6641,509,6639,6637,6642,236,4914,2593],"class_list":["post-9755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-chicago-board-of-trade","tag-chicago-mercantile-exchange","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-contracts","tag-economy","tag-exchange-operator","tag-federal-deficit","tag-federal-reserve-policy","tag-federal-reserve","tag-government-bonds","tag-interest-rate-futures","tag-interest-rates","tag-trillion","tag-u-s-treasury-bonds","tag-u-s-treasury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}