London Metal Exchange December 2002 Volume

The London Metal Exchange traded a total of 4,441,303 lots in December 2002. This figure was made up of 4,306,971 lots of futures, 131,517 lots of options and 2,815 lots of TAPOs.

During the year, 58,634,002 lots were traded of which 56,303,777 lots were futures, 2,199,110 lots were options and 131,115 lots were TAPOs. In 2001 59,413,250 lots were traded of which 56,224,495 were futures, 3,041,423 were options and 147,332 were TAPOs.