The Exchange’s agricultural markets – futures, options, and ex-pit – traded in October 273.586 contracts. The table below shows the number of transactions per market. BM&F’s grading agency, in October, certified samples that represented 1,455 lots of coffee and 306,108 bales of cotton – 220,855 of these from the laboratories in Mato Grosso.
Number of Traded Contracts
|
October/2007 |
Crystal Sugar |
4,837 |
Live Cattle |
127,239 |
Arabica Coffee |
104,201 |
Ethanol |
2,014 |
Corn |
20,397 |
Soybean |
14,898 |
Total |
273,586 |
