Tokyo Commodity Exchange Foreign Customer Trade Exceeds 40% Of Total Volume In June

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange announced today that the June 2013 monthly volume of customer trades (sell & buy) originating overseas comprised 40.9 percent of the total trades, which marked the all-time high ratio. The record has been renewed four consecutive months. The volume of foreign customer trades and its proportion to the total trades on TOCOM markets started to increase significantly after the launch of to the current trading platform in May 2009. In the past three years, the ratio advanced from some 10 percent to 40.9%.

• TOCOM Trades Originating Overseas (Jan '10-June '13)