Saturday, June 19, 2010

Classification of Commodities

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES:

PLANTATION:
Rubber
FIBRES:
Cotton
SPICES:
Pepper
Turmeric
Jeera
Chilli
Coriander
Cardamom
CEREALS:
Wheat
Barley
Maize
OIL & OIL SEEDS:
Castor seeds
Cotton seed oilcake
Soy bean
Refined soy oil
Mustard seed
Crude Palm oil
OTHERS:
Almond
Guar seed
Menthe oil
Potato
Guar gum
Gur
Sugar

PULSES:
Chana
Yellow Peas

METAL & ENERGY COMMODITIES:
BULLIONS/PRECIOUS METALS:
Gold
Silver
Platinum
BASE METALS:
Copper
Zinc
Lead
Steel
Nickel
Aluminum
Tin

ENERGY:
Crude oil
Natural gas
Gasoline
Heating oil

          The list of internationally traded commodities is even longer. Internationally livestocks, weather contracts are also traded with good volume. Weather contracts have entered into India but will take good time to catch up attraction.
         There are also some more commodities traded on Indian Commodity Exchanges such as ATF, Thermal coal etc. Variants of commodities such as Maize feed, Maize Industrial etc. Contracts also classified upon location and different volume/weight, import grade, export grade etc. are also traded.
          We will shortly give you brief, and basic idea about each segment of commodities along with some useful insight.

Please be a part of this learning process.

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