commodities market
Raw goods exchange
A commodities market is a marketplace where raw materials and primary products are bought and sold—grains, metals, oil, coffee, cotton.
Trading happens either on physical exchanges or electronically, often through futures contracts that lock in prices for future delivery.
Wheat prices surged on the commodities market after the drought.
- tradersProfessional buyers and sellers
- trading floorExchange transaction area
- goldElement seventy-nine
- futures contractsAgreements to trade later
- inflationSustained price level increase
price volatility · crude oil · oil futures · clearinghouses · arbitrage · derivatives · coffee · soybeans · silver · brokers · cotton · copper · sugar · harvest season · natural gas · speculators · wheat · hedging
- commercetrade, banking, merchant, imports, sales
- marketsmarketplace, bazaar, souk, vendors, food stalls
commodities marketstock market
Securities trading venue
equity market · bond market · securities market · currency market · money market
commodities marketauction house
Firm conducting competitive sales
private sale · command economy · central planning · rationing system · barter system
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