CME

CME expands equity derivatives with new factor futures, offering targeted exposure, margin offsets and flexible trading for institutions.

This final deep dive unpacks Nasdaq's strategic evolution beyond its traditional exchange roots into a powerhouse driven by high-margin software, sticky financial crime tech, and recurring solutions. We analyze the upcoming December 6 launch of 23-hour trading, evaluating how expanded operating hours unlock greater utilization across Nasdaq's capital access platforms and software subscriptions. The article ends with a five-point scorecard comparing Nasdaq, ICE, CME, and Cboe, detailing the two winners of this project.

CME is expanding through higher trading volumes, new derivatives products and record market-data revenues while returning capital to shareholders.

CME Group stands as the world's largest derivatives marketplace, benefiting from high recurring institutional volumes and exceptional operating margins. CME trades at a premium (EV/EBITDA 21.5x vs. peer average 16.2x), justified by low debt, strong pricing power, and resilient bear-market performance. The company's earnings are partly driven by client collateral investment income and a 27% stake in S&P Dow Jones Indices, contributing 26% of total earnings.

CHICAGO, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that its S&P UBS USD Liquid Leveraged Loan Index futures began trading on September 14.

Summary Fed Chairman Warsh signaled that rate hikes are needed to improve its price stability mandate. The US Treasury's plan to buy long maturities is a short-term fix for a growing unmanageable problem, in our opinion.

CME Group named insider Jack Tobin as chief ​financial officer on Wednesday, succeeding Lynne Fitzpatrick, ‌who is set to become the derivatives exchange's first female CEO.

CHICAGO, Sept. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc. will announce earnings for the third quarter of 2026 before the markets open on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.

@OptionsPlay's Tony Zhang offers his takeaways on the broad tech strength in Thursday's trading session as Nvidia (NVDA) gives new life to the sector. He outlines options trading opportunities in CME Group (CME) and Marvell (MRVL) and makes a bull case in both even if the stock market is hit with another volatility wave.

Craig Bewick, global head of retail education at CME Group, discusses the lessons learned from CME's prior single stock futures launch and how it aims for this one to be much more successful. He says now is "the right time" for these products due to the growing impact single stock moves have on the stock market.