21.   The contracts will be traded on the IBB in Bogota, the IBO in Cali and the Ibomed in Medellin.

22.   The exchange received approval to trade the contracts from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the regulatory body for the futures and commodities markets.

23.   The Financial Instruments Exchange, or Finex, plans to start trading futures contracts on an index of Latin American Brady bonds tomorrow.

24.   The gold and silver belong to people or firms trading futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange, although they rarely take actual possession of the metal.

25.   The markets trade comparable contracts during similar hours.

26.   The new Dow contracts are aimed at retail investors, who it is hoped will want to trade contracts based on the most widely known stock market index.

27.   The Nymex trades futures contracts in energy products including crude oil, heating oil and electricity, precious metals and copper.

28.   They did confirm that a group of Spanish bankers had visited the U.S. exchange in the past year to learn how the FCOJ contract was traded.

29.   Trading those contracts helps the firms test demand for the securities as they prepare to bid for them.

30.   Trading at New York commodity exchanges was cancelled yesterday because of the storm and today energy contracts were traded during a shortened day.