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What We Trade
The wide array of trading markets provided by the Exchange include futures
and options contracts for crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas,
gold, silver, copper, aluminum, and platinum; futures contracts for coal,
propane, and palladium; and options contracts on the price differentials
between crude oil and gasoline, crude oil and heating oil, Brent and West
Texas Intermediate crude oil, and various futures contract months (calendar
spreads) for light, sweet crude; Brent crude; gasoline; heating oil; and
natural gas.
The Exchange also lists e-miNY
energy futureSM, fractional light, sweet crude oil and
natural gas futures contracts that offer smaller investors and traders
the opportunity for an efficient means of participating in energy markets.
The contracts trade via the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's GLOBEX® electronic
trading system and clear through the New York Mercantile Exchange clearinghouse.
e-miNY
Futures
The Exchange also clears off-exchange trades for market participants who
wish to avoid counterparty credit risk by using standardized contracts
for natural gas, crude oil, refined products, and electricity.
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 Chicago
Mercantile Exchange
Inside CME
As the leading futures exchange in the United States, CME is vital to
the infrastructure of global finance. Our products - futures and options
on futures - help commercial enterprises worldwide manage price risks
related to the uncertainties of supply and demand.
From its roots in the agricultural industry, CME furthered its reputation
for innovation when it introduced the world's first financial futures
more than 30 years ago. Today, CME products include interest rates, stock
indexes, foreign exchange and commodities.
CME products often serve as financial benchmarks. Our Eurodollar contract
provides a benchmark for measuring the relative value of U.S. dollar-denominated,
fixed-income securities. Similarly, our S&P 500® and NASDAQ-100® stock
index futures are closely linked to the benchmark indexes for U.S. equity
performance.
CME's products enable businesses to transfer their risk because futures
markets attract both those wishing to limit their risks and those willing
to take on risk in order to capitalize on market opportunities. CME's
markets, and all futures markets, thrive because they serve this important
market function.
CME futures on livestock, dairy and forest products enable numerous companies,
ranging from small family farms to large agribusinesses, to better manage
their price risks. Trading commodities can also be rewarding for those
who accept the risk these agribusinesses seek to diminish. Now, both hedgers
and traders have a choice of contracts ù electronic or pit-traded.
CME's Commodity Products
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Dairy
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E-Livestock
Hogs
Lumber
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Board of Trade
Quotes & Data
Track prices for the products you trade on the Chicago Board of Trade
Web Site. The Quotes and Data section contains a variety of price quotes,
charts, and other data. Select the appropriate product complex from the
menu below. Most prices are 10-minute delayed snapshots, however, equity
(DowSM Jones) and mini-sized contracts are offered real time.
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Real Time Quotes on CBOT® Dow and mini-sized products. (*Quotes are
updated every few seconds.)
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* These prices, are being transmitted through the Internet, which may not
always be reliable. If you need continuous pricing, we recommend that you
contact a quote vendor. The Board of Trade a) has the exclusive property
rights in and to the prices; (b) the prices constitute valuable confidential
information and proprietary rights of the Board of Trade, not within the
public domain; and (c) but for this agreement or another agreement with
the Exchange that expressly authorizes the receipt of the prices, no individual
or entity would have any rights with respect to, or rights to access or
receive, any prices.
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reserved.
 New
York Board of Trade
For over a century, the global futures and options markets of the New
York Board of Trade have relied on the open outcry auction process as
the best environment for negotiating the best price for cocoa, coffee,
cotton, orange juice, sugar and a variety of financial and index products.
Risk managers and investors trust the open outcry process because trading
is "open" in all our trading rings where the "outcry" for each trade is
heard by all who compete in those rings for price. Exchange price reporters
enter those prices directly into hand-held wireless computers that send
them to mainframes and out to the world. In fact the prices are sent simultaneously
to this web site as they are sent to the wallboards and screens on our
trading floor. In other words, if you subscribe to receive market data
directly from NYBOTLIVE, the prices you see are the actual prices on the
floor at that moment.
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