CME

CME crossed with 2014

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — CME and 2014 — sum to $488,460. 336 itemized contributions and 101 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. This page joins the employer grouping CME to cycle 2014; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the CME hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 101 unique donors and 336 lines in 2014 sit under the stored string CME. CME GROUP, CME INC, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, and CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE stay on their own keys if filers used them. CFTC, SEC, or other financial-regulator USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

4.6% of the CME roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,607,839 ($10.6 million). The 2014 slice of $488,460 is about 4.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.4%, or $10,119,379. Treating 2014 as the CME FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $488,460 when the sentence is about 2014. Quote $10,607,839 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $10,607,839 as the denominator for the 4.6% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2014 from being folded silently into $10,607,839. 4.6% is $488,460 divided by $10,607,839. Rounding to $488,460 and $10.6 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

Questions

How much did CME donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $488,460 in itemized individual contributions for the CME grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 336 contributions and 101 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,607,839 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the CME × 2014 join.

What share of CME FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,607,839. The 2014 cell of $488,460 is about 4.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.4% ($10,119,379) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the CME hub holds other cycles.

Is this CME’s PAC or an official account?

No. $488,460 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to CME. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a Chicago Mercantile Exchange membership roll, not a CME Group PAC, and not a derivatives-volume statistic. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the CME 2014 join?

Open Cme 2014 for the cycle overlay, Cme for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.