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Agricultural Commodities: Open Interest Sets Historic Record At BM&F

Date 29/06/2007

BM&F’s agricultural markets registered record open interest on June 26th: 103,680 contracts in comparison to 100,830 on June 25th. Live Cattle and Ethanol futures contracts also set an open interest historic mark. With an open interest of 42,657 registered on June 26th, Live Cattle futures surpassed the 41,390 mark registered on the day before. Ethanol futures registered an open interest of 757 on June 25th, totaled an open interest of 833 on June 26th – also a record.

In relation to contracts traded at BM&F, in June, until the 22nd, the Coffee, Corn, and Soybean futures volume exceeded the total volume traded on June 2006:

  06/2007* 06/2006
Coffee 47,274  38,514
Corn 6,678 6,533
Soybean 9,704 9,154

* Until 06/22/2007