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CME Group Inc. (CME), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is renowned as the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. Valued at $70.98 billion by market cap, the company offers a broad range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products, and metals. It also operates one of the world’s leading counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
Companies worth $10 billion or more are generally described as “large-cap stocks,” CME fits right into that category, signifying its substantial size, stability, and dominance in its industry. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed-income trading via BrokerTec, and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform.