New York Mercantile Exchange
New York, United States
Abbreviation
NYMEX
Location
New York, United States
Region
Americas
Group
CME Group
Product Types
Energy, Precious Metals, Industrial Metals
About New York Mercantile Exchange
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.
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