A short description shows you the particular commodities traded in these markets, neglecting the trade of securities, stock index futures and options etc. As the major commodity markets are in the United Kingdom and in the USA, these two countries come first, all other countries being listed in alphabetical order. Though not all of the world's commodity exchanges are present on the Internet.
Some exchanges provide only general information, but no access to daily settlement prices.
There is no charge for this information, but you will need to register before viewing it. It offers the facilities for making an exchange of futures for physicals. The LME is the London market for trade in metals and the world futures and cash market for trades in non-ferous metals, such as aluminium, aluminium alloy, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc. There are also exchange-traded options, available on all futures contracts apart from aluminium alloy. The market is daily for cash and contracts up to three months, and weekly for contracts up to 15 months.