The world's leading “soft” commodity exchange, the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), rang up sizeable trading volume numbers during July 2006 (2,867,235 total contracts), bringing the year-to-date [YTD]) total to 26,749,764 futures and options contracts, a 26 percent increase over the same period from 2005.
YTD category increases include: Total Ag Futures (up 19 percent), Currency Futures (up 28 percent), and Total Futures (up 20 percent); options increases are Ag Options (up 47 percent), Currency Options (up 14 percent), and Total Options (up 45 percent).
The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is New York's original futures exchange, where the world trades food, fiber and financial products.
For well over a century, the New York Board of Trade has provided reliability, integrity and security in a global marketplace for cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, as well as currency and index futures and options.
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