22.06.2012 - Multi Commodity Exchange becomes world's third biggest commodity futures exchange
Mumbai-headquartered Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) has recently announced that it became world's third biggest commodity futures exchange in 2011 in terms of volume of contracts. It was ranked 6th in 2010 and has overtaken Europe's Intercontinental Exchange and China's Shanghai Futures Exchange and Dalian Commodity Exchange. MCX mentioned its volumes jumped 75.5% to 346.2 million contracts in 2011, while the volumes of CME group, which includes CME, CBOT and NYMEX, grew 11.2% to 677.2 million contracts to take the first position. Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange in China was second with 406.4 million contracts trading in 2011...............................................Full Article: Source
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