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Commodity Main exchange MIC Contract size Symbol Corn: CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu C/ZC (Electronic) Corn EURONEXT: 50 tons EMA Corn DCE: XDCE: 10 metric tons c Oats CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu O/ZO (Electronic) Rough Rice CBOT: XCBT: 2000 cwt: ZR Soybeans CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu: S/ZS (Electronic) No 2. Soybean DCE XDCE: 10 metric tons b Rapeseed: EURONEXT 50 ...
A commodities exchange is an exchange, or market, where various commodities are traded. 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 ).
A cointegration relationship exists for Dalian Commodity Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures prices. On September 22, 2004, DCE started trading corn futures. On December 22, DCE started trading No.2 soybeans futures. According to FIA statistics of volume in 2004, DCE ranks No.8 among international futures exchanges. [8]
In addition to those 26 markets, the Index also included the spot New Orleans cotton and Minneapolis wheat markets which were added to balance some commodities repeated in the Index as by-products of other commodities. The original base period was 1947-49, the same as the Bureau of Labor Statistics Spot Market Index. This was purposely done to ...
Those futures exchanges that also offer trading in securities besides trading in futures contracts may be listed both here and in the list of futures exchanges. There are twenty one stock exchanges in the world that have a market capitalization of over US$1 trillion each.
In 1934, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began the computation of a daily Commodity price index that became available to the public in 1940. By 1952, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a Spot Market Price Index that measured the price movements of "22 sensitive basic commodities whose markets are presumed to be among the first to be influenced by changes in economic conditions.
Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange was the first experimental futures market approved by the State Council, established on October 12, 1990. The ZCE, which started with forward contract trading, launched its first futures contracts on five agricultural products - wheat, maize, soybean, green bean and sesame on May 28, 1993.
The value of these indexes fluctuates based on their underlying commodities, and this value can be traded on an exchange in much the same way as stock index futures. Investors can choose to obtain a passive exposure to these commodity price indices through a total return swap or a commodity index fund .