| Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) eliminated the Liffe name and incorporated cocoa, robusta coffee, white sugar and feed wheat futures and options into ICE Futures Europe, owner of the Brent crude contract.
ICE, based in Atlanta, has the dominant position in the softs markets, also owning ICE Futures U.S. in New York where arabica coffee, cocoa and raw sugar trade. ICE Futures Europe now has the biggest share of the cocoa market with 259,410 futures outstanding today compared with 209,687 contracts on ICE Futures U.S., according to data compiled by Bloomberg. ICE’s Brent oil futures have 1.4 million contracts outstanding...............................................Full Article: Source
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