| CME Group Inc. Reports Solid Second-Quarter 2010 Financial Results-continued | |||||
| Second-quarter net income was $271 million and diluted earnings per share were $4.11, up 22 percent and 23 percent respectively from the same period last year. Second-quarter 2010 results included a $20.5 million write down of goodwill of the company's subsidiary, Credit Market Analysis Limited (CMA). Excluding the write down, second-quarter diluted EPS would have been $4.43*, a 33 percent increase versus second-quarter 2009.
"During a volatile second quarter, CME Group's markets performed well in their critical functions of providing liquidity, transparency, reliability and security to market participants," said CME Group Executive Chairman Terry Duffy. "Our extensive track record of operating safe and secure markets is what our customers rely on, and what helped us achieve strong second quarter results. We are pleased that the newly signed Dodd-Frank Act reinforces the value of these attributes, and look forward to working with market participants to efficiently implement the tenets of the Act while preserving the integrity of U.S. financial markets." |
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| Source: CME Group | |||||