The Tokyo Commodity Exchange announced today that average daily trading volume for April 2015 was 88,382 contracts, down 0.8% from March 2015. On a year-on-year basis, it gained 19.4%. The Oil market, as well as the Agricultural Product & Sugar market, saw major increases in volume; Crude Oil was up 24.8% to 15,463 contracts and total Oil market volume was up 16.3% to 25,281 contracts. Corn volume rose 13.8% to 2,645 contracts, Soybean was up 322.3% to 1,220 contracts and the Agricultural Product & Sugar market was up a total of 149.6%. However, trading in other products fell. Gold, which is TOCOM”s most actively traded product, saw volume fall 13.2% to 29,935 contracts, which lead the overall decrease in exchange volume.
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