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Kansas City Board of Trade, on West 48th Street (2008) The Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), was an American commodity futures and options exchange regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Specializing in the hard-red winter wheat contract, it was located at 4800 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
On December 3, 2012, CME Group acquired the Kansas City Board of Trade, the dominant venue for the sale of hard red winter wheat, for $126 million in cash. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] On March 15, 2016, the firm announced the sale of its suburban Chicago data center in Aurora, IL to CyrusOne for $130 million, in a leaseback transaction.
Most commodity markets around the world trade in agricultural products and other raw materials (like wheat, barley, sugar, maize, cotton, cocoa, coffee, milk products, pork bellies, oil, and metals). Trading includes various types of derivatives contracts based on these commodities, such as forwards , futures and options , as well as spot ...
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and (COMEX) (Since 2008 Designated Contract Markets owned by the CME Group) Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) (Since 2012, a Designated Contract Market owned by the CME Group) NEX Group plc (NXG.L) (Since 2018, a Swap Execution Facility owned by the CME Group) [6] Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
Wheat CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu W/ZW (Electronic) Wheat EURONEXT 50 tons EBM UK Feed Wheat ICE: IEPA: 100 metric tons T Milk CME: XCME: 200,000 lbs DC Cocoa ICE: IEPA: 10 metric tons CC Cocoa (London) ICE: IEPA: 10 metric tons C Coffee C: ICE: IEPA: 37,500 lb KC Cotton No.2 ICE: IEPA: 50,000 lb CT Sugar No.11 ICE: IEPA: 112,000 lb SB Sugar No.14 ICE ...
In 1883, the Chamber of Commerce introduced its first futures contract: hard red spring wheat. By 1946 "Chamber of Commerce" had become synonymous with organizations devoted mainly to civic and social issues. In 1947, the exchange was renamed the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange. [1] Futures contracts are derivatives contracts to buy or sell specific quantities of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future.
In the North American plains, the wheat production axis that extends over a length of 1,500 miles (2,400 km) in a north–south direction from central Alberta to central Texas is known as the Wheat Belt. Hard red winter wheat is grown in the Central U.S. states of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and Texas and ...