Summary Of August 2009 Activities At Tokyo Commodity Exchange

Tokyo Commodity Exchange today announced that August trading volume averaged 102,724 contracts per day, up 2.1 percent from July 2009, down 34.0 percent from August 2008. Monthly average daily volume per product was as follows:

• Gold: 38,004 contracts, up 7.4% from July 2009, down 31.3% from August 2008
• Platinum: 14,244 contracts, up 8.4% from July 2009, down 44.9% from August 2008
• Crude Oil: 2,678 contracts, down 22.8? from July 2009, down 6.1? from August 2008
• Gasoline: 14,560 contracts, down 5.1? from July 2009, up
• Kerosene: 3,628 contracts, down 13.5?from July 2009, down 26.0% from August 2008
• Rubber: 14,507contracts, up 26.7? from July 2009, down 31.8? from August 2008
• Palladium: 426 contracts, up 42.6? from July 2009, down 73.2? from August 2008

Rubber and Palladium reached their highest prices for the year in August.

TOCOM monthly trading volume for August decreased by 2.5 percent compared to July 2009, to amount to a total of 2,157,000 contracts, which represented 78.9 percent of the total volume traded on Japan’s four commodity exchanges.

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