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NY exchange won't cotton to Merc lead. (competition between the New York Cotton Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange)

Crain's Chicago Business, November, 1997 by Birger, Jon

Aims for share of Chicago mart's futures business The New York Cotton Exchange is challenging the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a larger share of the financial futures market. Currently, 35% of the Cotton Exchange's trading volume comes from financial futures - derivatives linked to stock indexes or currency prices.

The exchange would like to increase that to 50%. Charles Minnaar, the Cotton Exchange's senior vice-president for marketing and product development, explains that demand for financial futures is more consistent than demand for cotton, orange juice and other agricultural futures - products that now make up the majority of the exchange's trading volume. "The market for agricultural futures tends to be subject to seasonal cycles and the vagaries of...

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