CME Group Inc. Cl A closed 6.71% below its 52-week high of $249.02, which the company achieved on December 5th.

CME Group Inc. Cl A closed $19.57 below its 52-week high ($249.02), which the company reached on December 5th.

Investors are also turning to derivatives, such as CME Group’s S&P 500-equal weight futures, to bet on the S&P while hedging against a sharp drop in tech stocks. The contract, which launched in February, has averaged open interest of 16,500 contracts this month, worth about $2.4bn.

Of the S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings so far, 79% have beat estimates, according to FactSet data.

The S&P 500 climbed to 6,100 for the first time during Wednesday's session. Traders cheered strong earnings and an AI initiative Trump announced on Tuesday.

CME Group, Inc. operates a derivatives marketplace, which offers a range of futures and options products for risk management. Its exchanges offer a range of global benchmark products across all ...

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The CNN Money Fear and Greed index showed further improvement in overall market sentiment, while the index remained in the “Fear” zone on Wednesday. U.S. stocks settled higher on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 surging to a new all-time high during the session.

Wall Street’s biggest players moved to protect themselves against tech stock dominance in 2024, driving record cash into a fund that splits money evenly across all S&P 500 stocks. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight exchange-traded fund pulled in $17 billion last year,

Wall Street's indexes rose on Wednesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 hitting an intraday record high as investors cheered streaming video provider Netflix's quarterly report and President Donald Trump's private-sector artificial intelligence infrastructure investment plan.

Valued at $83.9 billion by market cap, CME Group Inc. (CME) operates as the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. The Chicago-based derivatives exchange offers the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes,

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