REUTERS CORRECTED-(OFFICIAL)-NYMEX silver volume sets record on Globex [GTHPMQP]
NEW YORK, Feb 21 (Reuters) - NYMEX Holdings Inc.'s
New York Mercantile Exchange said on Wednesday it set a daily
volume record for silver futures contracts on the CME Globex
electronic trading platform on Tuesday.
COMEX silver futures volume reached 24,959 contracts,
surpassing the previous high of 18,608 contracts traded on Feb.
2.
The NYMEX also said that COMEX miNY gold futures traded a
record 297 contracts, exceeding the 217 contracts traded on
Feb. 9.
The NYMEX migrated COMEX electronic trading in gold,
silver, copper and aluminum futures contracts to the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Globex platform on Dec. 3, retiring
the outdated NYMEX ACCESS electronic trade system.
