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Russian wheat futures need speculators to improve liquidity, traders say


Wheat futures trading on Russia’s National Mercantile Exchange (Namex), the commodity arm of Micex Group, has made a solid start this year, but still lacks the liquidity sought by market participants.

On December 18 the overall value of rouble-denominated wheat contracts that had been traded since their launch in April exceeded Rb25bn ($900m), representing 4.8 million tonnes of...

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