Japan's commodity exchanges to merge

28 Aug 2006

Falling volumes at Japan's commodity exchanges and ongoing exchange rationalisation has resulted in Central Japan Commodity Exchange (C-Com) and Osaka Mercantile Exchange (OME) agreeing to a merger.

C-Com, which recorded average daily volumes of 40,000 lots in the first...

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