Studies in operational issues of multicommunity exchanges in India

Abstract

Commodity market is a place where trading in commodities takes place It is similar to newlinean Equity market but instead of buying or selling shares one buys or sells commodities newlineThese commodities are agricultural products and other raw materials like wheat barley newlinesugar maize cotton cocoa coffee milk products pork bellies etc metals like copper newlinealuminum steel gold silver etc and energy commodities like natural gas oil newlineelectricity etc Other sophisticated products include interest rates environmental newlineinstruments swaps weather derivatives or ocean freight contracts