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Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Sets Daily Trading Volume Record Levels In Canola Futures

Date 03/10/2000

Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) established a new daily pit trading volume record in the November canola futures contract on October 2, 2000 at 10,079 contracts. The previous record for daily trading volume in a single contract month for canola was 9,739 contracts set on October 1, 1998.

Daily canola futures pit trading volume for October 2, 2000 approached record levels, with 19,348 contracts trading, only slightly down from the record level of 19,613 set on December 17, 1998.

WCE provides the world’s premier price discovery and risk management tool for canola. Canola is the most actively traded commodity on WCE and has been trading since 1963; options on canola futures have been available since 1991.

WCE trades futures contracts in: canola, western barley, flaxseed, oats, feed wheat and field peas; and options contracts in: canola, flaxseed, feed wheat and western barley. Established in 1887, Winnipeg Commodity Exchange is a not-for-profit organization providing financial instruments for price discovery and the transference of risk in an efficient and open manner.