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IPE electronic fails to spark


Low volumes of Brent crude futures at International Petroleum Exchange (IPE)'s electronic platform dwindled further into the second week of side-by-side trading.

In the first three days of last week, 4,939 Brent futures traded electronically, around half the number for the first three days of parallel trading the previous week and just 1.4% the floor-traded volume of 344,322.

According to IPE chief executive Richard Ward, the screens see good...

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