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A noticeable chill swept through India's commodities world in late January when the government banned futures on two products core to the Indian diet and to all three national commodity exchanges: the tur (a type of pea) and the urad (a type of lentil). Then, in early March, the Chinese government delisted futures on wheat and rice. Fortunately, there are plenty of other new products that offer American traders a chance to get in on moves around the world. The Joint Asian Derivatives Exchange, for example, has finally launched its flagship product, dollar-denominated crude palm oil. That major oil correlates with soybean oil and corn oil, and trades on the Chicago Board of Trades electronic platform. The London Stock Exchange, meanwhile, says it will soon announce a new platform for Eastern European product, probably in cooperation with the Warsaw Exchange or Moscow's RTS. In India, as in China, commodity markets are booming domestically, but face stiff political opposition.
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A noticeable chill swept through India's commodities world in late January when the government banned futures on two products core to the Indian diet and to all three national commodity exchanges: the tur (a type of pea) and the urad (a type of lentil).
The move came weeks before Parliament launched debate on legislation to ope...See the full content of this document
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