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Commodities
Softs & Agricultural Commodities

Liffe lists a broad range of futures and options contracts covering soft and agricultural products which include Cocoa, Robusta Coffee, White Sugar, Raw Sugar, Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat, Rapeseed, Rapeseed Oil, and Corn. These contracts offer an effective and efficient tool for hedging the price risk and volatility inherent in the underlying markets, providing price transparency as well as providing the benchmark for physical transactions. In addition, they are widely used as a vehicle for trading, investment and arbitrage activity.


Main contracts by volume
19/11/08
Name Market Code Vol. O.I.
Cocoa Fut. LON C 2,195 196,623
Corn Fut. PAR EMA 230 8,936
Feed Wheat Fut LON T 376 11,493
Milling Wheat Fut. PAR EBM 757 89,686
Rapeseed Fut. PAR ECO 384 38,260
Robusta Coffee Fut. LON D 1,598 80,194
White Sugar Fut LON W 287 44,815

Note Date for volume is current trading day. Date for open interest is current trading day -1
Precious Metals

Our acquisition of the CBOT’s precious metals complex from CME Group will bring trading of full-size and mini Gold and Silver futures, and options on futures contracts to NYSE Euronext’s family of global exchanges.

While we transition these products to NYSE Liffe, our new U.S. futures market (subject to CFTC approval), Gold and Silver remain available to trade on the existing platform, and no changes are necessary to current CBOT connectivity. CME will continue to clear the contracts on an interim basis.

For more information on Precious Metals, please visit NYSE Liffe


News & notices
Official market notices and announcements.


Product information
Contract specifications, (quote vendor) codes and margin requirements


Trading calendars
Last trading days for all Commodity futures and options contracts


Delivery
Warehouses, grain stores and delivery procedures


Against actual/Wholesale trading
The Against Actual (AA) facility allows physical market participants to exchange futures contracts outside of the central order book in order to price directly related physical contracts.


Advisory groups
Member overviews of the Commodity Advisory Groups, who assist the Exchange in identifying relevant matters for consideration in respect of both the underlying physical markets and product and market development.


Publications
Download our commodities publications.


Background information
Information about the production, trade and use of the commodities that are used as the underlying value of our options and futures.


Trade associations
Details of commodity trade associations and useful contacts in respect of the commodity products traded on Liffe.


Prices
Liffe provides a range of real-time and delayed internet-delivered data services. A list of third party quote vendors supplying both real time and delayed pricing services is also available.


Commodity reports
Liffe provides a range of daily, weekly, monthly and ad hoc reports that detail market information about its commodity products


End of day/EDSP
Liffe provides a rolling ten-day archive of end of day data for the Liffe Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris markets and a full history of the exchange delivery settlement prices.

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