CME Group on June 8 announced that corn futures open interest reached a record 2,006,600 contracts on June 6, surpassing the 2 million contracts milestone for the first time. The previous record was 1,995,835 contracts set on June 4. Increasingly, market participants around the globe are relying on the flexibility and deep liquidity of our benchmark agricultural products to manage risk of global economic uncertainty or take advantage of trading opportunities. This corn futures open interest milestone is part of a broader volume and open interest growth trend across our agricultural products in 2018, including a single-day volume record of more than 3 million contracts traded on April 4, 2018.