
Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®), established in 1848, is a leading futures and futures-options exchange. More than 3,600 CBOT member/stockholders trade 50 different futures and options products at the CBOT by open auction and electronically. Volume at the Exchange in 2006 surpassed 805 million contracts, the highest yearly total recorded in its history.
URL: http://www.cbot.com
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and also owns and operates the largest futures Clearing House in the world. CME products fall into five major areas: interest rates, equities, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities and alternative investments. Two forums are available for trading CME products: the long-standing open outcry trading floors and the CME® Globex® electronic trading platform.
URL: http://www.cme.com
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group
CME Group is a combined entity formed by the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). We bring more than 250 years of exchange expertise to the global marketplace, and we are the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world for trading futures and options. The combined volume of CME and CBOT in 2006 exceeded 2.2 billion contracts, worth more than $1,000 trillion. Three quarters of our trades are made electronically.
URL: http://www.cmegroup.com
New York Mercantile Exchange
The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange and the preeminent trading forum for energy and precious metals. The Exchange has stood for market integrity and price transparency for more than 130 years. Transactions executed on the Exchange avoid the risk of counterparty default because the Exchange clearinghouse acts as the counterparty to every trade. Trading is conducted through two divisions, the NYMEX Division, home to the energy, platinum, and palladium markets; and the COMEX Division, on which all other metals trade.
URL: http://www.nymex.com
New York Board of Trade
The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), provides the world's premiere futures and options markets for several internationally traded agricultural commodities: cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice and sugar. For well over a century, representatives of these primary commodity industries have joined traders and investors in the NYBOT markets to engage in price discovery, price risk transfer and price dissemination for these products. New York's original futures exchange also provides futures and options markets for currency cross rates, as well as for the Russell Equity Indexes, NYSE Commodity Index®, Reuters Jefferies CRB Index, Continuous Commodity Index (CCI), US Dollar Index® (USDX®) and the FINEX Euro Currency Index, along with new markets for Ethanol and Pulp.
URL: http://www.nybot.com
Eurex
Eurex is one of the world's largest derivatives exchange and the leading clearing house in Europe. It provides traders in any location with access to the benchmark futures and options market for European derivatives. With clearing services for derivatives, equities, bonds and repos, our customers benefit from a high-quality, cost-efficient and comprehensive trading and clearing value chain.
URL: http://www.eurexchange.com
US Futures Exchange
U.S. Futures Exchange (USFE) is a Chicago-based, electronic exchange with trading touch points throughout the world. It is dedicated to providing a wide range of futures products to retail and institutional investors alike, with an emphasis on creating and cultivating innovative products that will expand the breadth, scope and vitality of the derivatives market.
URL: http://www.usfe.com
Kansas City Board of Trade
Hard red winter wheat futures are the mainstay of the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT). Hard red winter wheat represents the bulk of U.S. wheat production and is the primary ingredient in the world's bread. Market users from around the globe look to this contract as the international benchmark for bread wheat prices. In 2006, the exchange traded more than 4.76 million wheat futures contracts, equivalent to more than 23.81 billion bushels, setting an exchange record. KCBT wheat futures have a record of consistent growth, and volume in 2006 more than six times that of 20 years earlier.
URL: http://www.kcbt.com |