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The Refinitiv Equal Weight Commodity Index (formerly known as the Continuous Commodity Index) is a major US barometer of commodity prices. The index comprises 17 commodity futures that are continuously rebalanced: cocoa, coffee, copper, corn, cotton, crude oil, gold, heating oil, live cattle, live hogs, natural gas, orange juice, platinum, silver, soybeans, Sugar No. 11, and wheat.
A farmer raising corn can sell a futures contract on his corn, which will not be harvested for several months, and gets a guarantee of the price he will be paid when he delivers; a breakfast cereal producer buys the contract and gets a guarantee that the price will not go up when it is delivered.
In futures contracts the buyer and the seller stipulate product, grade, quantity and location and leaving price as the only variable. [32] Agricultural futures contracts are the oldest, in use in the United States for more than 170 years. [33] Modern futures agreements, began in Chicago in the 1840s, with the appearance of grain elevators. [34]
For example, if a particular corn futures contract is trading at $3.50, while the current market price of the commodity today is $3.10, there is a 40-cent cost basis.
Corn: CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu C/ZC (Electronic) Corn EURONEXT: 50 tons EMA Corn DCE: XDCE: 10 metric tons c Oats CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu O/ZO (Electronic) Rough Rice CBOT: XCBT: 2000 cwt: ZR Soybeans CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu: S/ZS (Electronic) No 2. Soybean DCE XDCE: 10 metric tons b Rapeseed: EURONEXT 50 tons ECO Soybean Meal: CBOT: XCBT: 100 short tons SM ...
A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange. [1] Futures contracts are derivatives contracts to buy or sell specific quantities of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future.
“The price of commodities, like gold, oil and corn, can be highly volatile and are driven by complex factors, including supply, demand, geopolitical events and weather.
According to the Futures Industry Association, Dalian's soybean futures volume quickly became the second largest in the world. A cointegration relationship exists for Dalian Commodity Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures prices. On September 22, 2004, DCE started trading corn futures.