New York, United States
Abbreviation
NYMEX
Location
New York, United States
Region
Americas
Group
CME Group
Product Types
Energy, Precious Metals, Industrial Metals
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.
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.
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.
LedgerX was the first CFTC-regulated bitcoin derivatives exchange in the United States, offering bitcoin options and futures contracts to institutional and retail participants. Founded in 2013 and launching trading in 2017, LedgerX pioneered regulated crypto derivatives clearing. In 2021, it was acquired by FTX and rebranded as FTX US Derivatives. Following the catastrophic collapse of the FTX exchange group in November 2022, FTX US Derivatives ceased operations.
The Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) was one of the world's largest derivatives exchanges, founded in São Paulo in 1983. In 2008, BM&F merged with the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) to form BM&FBOVESPA. In 2017, it merged again with CETIP to create B3 (Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão) — now Latin America's largest financial exchange group by market capitalisation. B3 continues to operate commodity derivatives including sugar, arabica coffee, live cattle, ethanol, and gold contracts.