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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
25/07/08
Name Delivery Month Vol. O.I. Trade Trade time Bid Ask
Cocoa Fut. Sep 2008 5,170 195,168 1,502 17:50 1,499.00 1,502.00
Corn Fut. Aug 2008 176 3,934 198 17:27 197.00 198.75
Feed Wheat Fut Nov 2008 907 11,448 132 18:27 131.10 132.25
Milling Wheat Fut. Aug 2008 5,593 79,273 190 18:25 187.00 190.00
Rapeseed Fut. Aug 2008 2,352 38,294 412 18:11 410.25 411.50
Robusta Coffee Fut. Jul 2008 9,280 142,142 2,450 18:13 2,410.00 2,415.00
White Sugar Fut Oct 2008 2,660 59,413 360 18:29 358.20 359.50

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

# The products referred to on this web page are currently listed for trading by the Chicago Board of Trade and cleared through CME Clearing. Subject to Commodity Futures Trading Commission approval, these products will transfer during the second half of 2008 to a newly established Designated Contract Market (to be called NYSE Liffe) owned by NYSE Euronext.


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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