Chicago, United States
Abbreviation
CBOT
Location
Chicago, United States
Region
Americas
Group
CME Group
Product Types
Grains, Ethanol, Treasuries, Equity Index, Metals
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges, established in 1848 in Chicago, Illinois. Originally founded to address supply and demand challenges in the grain industry, CBOT grew to offer contracts across agricultural commodities, CBOT U.S. Treasury bonds, equity indexes, and metals. CME Group merged with CBOT in 2007, making it one of four Designated Contract Markets within the CME Group family.
Nodal Exchange is the world's largest power futures exchange by number of listed contracts, offering US electricity futures for over 1,000 delivery points across all major North American power grids. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Nodal also offers natural gas and environmental credit contracts. Acquired by EEX Group (a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse) in 2021, Nodal provides critical risk management tools for electricity generators, utilities, and energy traders across the US National Electricity Markets.
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange, tracing its origins to 1872 as the Butter and Cheese Exchange of New York. Now a division of CME Group, NYMEX provides global benchmark pricing for energy and metals markets including WTI crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, gasoline, gold, silver, copper, platinum, and palladium. NYMEX contracts are widely referenced for international energy and metals price discovery.
MATba Rofex is Argentina's leading derivatives exchange, formed in 2019 through the merger of the Buenos Aires Cereals Market (MATba, founded 1907) and the Rosario Futures Exchange (Rofex, founded 1909). As Argentina's primary exchange for agricultural commodity futures, it trades soybeans, corn, wheat, sunflower seed, and soybean products alongside financial futures including US dollar, sovereign bonds, and equity index contracts. MATba Rofex is critical for Argentine agribusiness hedging, as Argentina is one of the world's top soybean exporters.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is one of the world's most influential financial exchanges, founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board and renamed CME in 1919. Headquartered in Chicago and part of CME Group, CME offers futures and options across meats, currencies, Eurodollar interest rates, equity index products, and a range of financial instruments, providing global risk management solutions to participants in over 150 countries.