The CME Group is offering a new suite of "micro" contracts tied to the agricultural products like soy and corn.

More than 54,000 contracts of the new micros had traded by Monday morning in Chicago, with activity in each of the new products led by 20,000 micro soybean and 17,000 micro corn, according to CME.

The launch marks a fresh attempt by CME, whose U.S. corn, wheat and soybean futures are global price benchmarks, to expand in the European grain market. The U.S. group scrapped a European Union ...

The CME Group today announced plans to implement variable price limits for grain and oilseed futures and eliminate price limits on grain and oilseed options. Product impacted include corn ...