With origins dating back to the 18th century, and incorporated in 1881, the exchange is the London commodity market for trade in metals and the world futures , options and cash market for trades in aluminium, aluminium alloy, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc. Some nine-tenths of the total trade is in the form of futures and options.
Membership is wholly international.
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