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OIC: The Options Industry Council Announces Options Trading Volume Increases 41% Setting New Record in 2007
CHICAGO, IL (MARKET WIRE) The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today that new annual volume record was set in 2007 with a total of 2,862,826,218 contracts changing hands, surpassing 2006's record by 41.18%. Equity options volume reached 2,592,102,961 contracts, exceeding the 1,844,181,918 total equity options volume contracts traded in 2006 by 40.56% percent.