Commodities
Soft & Agricultural Commodities

NYSE Liffe lists a broad range of futures and options contracts covering soft and agricultural products which include Cocoa, Robusta Coffee, White Sugar, Feed Wheat, Milling Wheat, Rapeseed, 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
20/11/09
Name Market Code Vol. O.I.
Cocoa Fut. LON C 15,642 174,662
Corn Fut. PAR EMA 561 13,884
Feed Wheat Fut LON T 293 10,049
Milling Wheat Fut. PAR EBM 5,737 128,036
Rapeseed Fut. PAR ECO 2,299 60,911
Robusta Coffee Fut. (409) LON RC 6,534 99,144
White Sugar Fut LON W 6,501 68,251

Note Date for volume is current trading day. Date for open interest is current trading day -1
Commodities on Bclear

Commodities on Bclear provide an efficient and cost effective means of processing and clearing OTC commodity business within the secure framework of an exchange and clearing house, using our proven OTC service, Bclear.

With Commodities on Bclear, you can enjoy the valuable benefits of doing business via an exchange – from clearing, processing and margining facilities to position netting – together with the aspects enjoyed in the OTC market, such as the ability to pre-negotiate business.

Commodities on Bclear encompass cash-settled swaps and cash-settled European-style options in Cocoa, Robusta Coffee and White Sugar. The Exchange intends to increase the range of commodity products and derivative instrument types throughout 2010.

For more information please go to www.nyx.com/bclear-commodities

Precious Metals

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

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


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. The Exchange for Swaps (EFS) facility allows market participants to organise and execute futures transactions which act as an offset to a specific identifiable OTC swap transaction in a similar commodity or a direct product of such commodity.


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 NYSE Liffe.


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


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

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Potential users of contracts referred to in this publication should familiarise themselves with the full contract specification of the product concerned and any associated information.