Osaka Mercantile Exchange

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Osaka Mercantile Exchange (OME) was a futures exchange based in Osaka, Japan.

The exchange was formed on 1 October 1997 from the merger of the Osaka Textile Exchange and the Kobe Rubber Exchange. As of 1 January 2007 it merged into the Central Japan Commodity Exchange (C-COM).

Trading was conducted at six specified session times through the day. Commodities traded were as follows (trading in them now continues at C-COM).

• Aluminium, for delivery at various warehouses in Japan

• Nickel, for delivery to designated warehouses

• RSS3 rubber, for delivery Kobe or Osaka

• Rubber index, cash settled on an average of rubber prices at eight worldwide exchanges

• TSR20 rubber, for delivery at Singapore warehouses

[edit] References

• Osaka Mercantile Exchange web site (gone as of 2007)

• About C-COM page at the Central Japan Commodity Exchange, as of 2 February 2007

[edit] See also

• List of futures exchanges