CME Group Announces New Physically Delivered 1,000 oz. Silver Futures Contract - WSJ.com

CME Group Announces New Physically Delivered 1,000 oz. Silver Futures Contract - WSJ.com

"We're introducing our new 1,000-oz. silver futures contract in response to demand from our customers, who are increasingly looking for cost-effective ways to manage risk," said Robert Ray, CME Group Managing Director EMEA. "The smaller size will provide market participants with greater flexibility to manage their silver price risk, and serve as a more cost-effective tool for individual investors or others looking to hedge against economic uncertainty. This is the first contract of its size that will be fully fungible and deliverable against our existing benchmark silver futures contract."
At one-fifth the size of the existing 5,000-oz. Silver futures contract, this new contract will be conveniently sized for market participants seeking to trade physical silver in smaller increments. It will be fully fungible with the full-sized Silver futures contract, which means that customers who accumulate five warehouse depository receipts of the 1,000-oz. contract can convert them into one 5,000-oz. Silver futures contract.
The addition of a deliverable, 1,000-oz. silver futures contract to the exchange's deep and liquid benchmark precious metals products is expected to provide new trading opportunities for market participants around the globe.
This contract will be available on the CME Globex electronic trading platform, for over-the-counter (OTC) clearing through CME ClearPort and open outcry on the trading floor in New York, beginning with the September 2013 contract month.