| From Dow Jones: Extended trading hours on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange may have boosted the number of gold futures transactions, but so far this hasn't resulted in higher oil and other commodity trading volumes, raising doubts about the future of some contracts.
Futures trading on Japanese exchanges has been on a downtrend since 2007, when the government introduced stricter regulations to protect individual investors, moves that were followed by a fall in the number of brokers and the closure of one exchange..............................................Full Article: Source
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