Tokyo Commodity Exchange today announced that September trading volume averaged 103,997 contracts per day, up 1.2 percent from August 2009, down 35.2 percent from September 2008. Monthly average daily volume per product was as follows:
- Gold: 43,827 contracts, up 15.3% from August 2009, down 22.1% from September 2008
- Platinum: 13,175 contracts, down 7.5% from August 2009, down 52.5% from September 2008
- Silver: 521 contracts, up 120.4% from August 2009, down 60.6% from September 2008
- Crude Oil: 2,526 contracts, down 5.7? from August 2009, down 8.1% from September 2008
- Gasoline: 11,517 contracts, down 21.0? from August 2009, down 4.7% from September 2008
- Rubber: 15,849 contracts, up 9.3? from August 2009, down 22.4% from September 2008
Silver and Rubber reached their highest prices for the year in September.
TOCOM monthly trading volume for September decreased by 8.4 percent compared to August 2009, to amount to a total of 1,975,938 contracts, which represented 81.5 percent of the total volume traded on Japan’s four commodity exchanges.
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