commodities futures market

After more than 20 years development, China's commodities futures market has become one of the world's largest.

Neither the farmers nor the consumers made any money, but the share index on the Commodities Futures Market went through the roof.

It fined the Schleicher brothers $500,000 and banned them from trading in the commodities futures market.

Foreigners will be allowed to trade on China's planned commodities futures markets, the first in a communist country, a senior official said in a newspaper article.

Richard B. Donchian, an early leader in the commodities futures market, died Saturday at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Ben P. Dell, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, would place another factor at the top of the list: the money that has been surging into the commodities futures markets.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will not seek to regulate the commodities futures markets in the wake of the investigation into corrupt trading on Chicago's markets, the S.E.C.'s chairman said today.

In attendance was Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang who said there is "a huge opportunity for Hong Kong to develop a commodities futures market" in Hong Kong.

Other than the fact that F.B.I. agents worked undercover for two years, secretly tape-recording conversations on the trading floor, precise details are not known about the purported abuses that occurred at the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest commodities futures market, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the second largest.

You'll know all about the commodities futures market, shinsei, and you'll know how, say, the cereal market, was evenly balanced between wheat farmers and their customers, eg Kelloggs, thanks to the futures markets, with the speculators taking a small profit by hedging the bets between the two sides on the future prices.