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 The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market, with highly liquid contracts. It is an innovative Exchange, whilst maintaining its traditional strengths in a modern business environment. It remains close to its core users by ensuring its contracts continue to meet the high expectations of a demanding industry. As a result, it is highly successful, with a turnover value of some US$2,000 billion per annum. It is a major contributor to the UK’s invisible earnings, responsible for more than £250 million in overseas earnings each year. |
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LME Special High Grade Zinc Futures & Traded Options Zinc is the fourth most widely used metal in the world. Its resistance to non-acidic atmospheric corrosion means that zinc is instrumental in prolonging the life of buildings, vehicles, ships and steel goods and structures of every kind. Accordingly, galvanising accounts for more than half of all present day applications of metal, and this figure is increasing. Zinc was traded unofficially on the LME from the outset when the Exchange was established in 1877 and became an official contract in 1915. The LME is the only international exchange to trade zinc and by the 1980s the volume of contracts traded on the LME led the international zinc industry to recognise the Exchange as the reference point for pricing physical contracts. With this development the Exchange became an even more appropriate venue for metal price risk management, a fact clearly reflected by a major growth in turnover. |
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The London Metal Exchange Limited 56 Leadenhall Street London EC3A 2DX UK t: +44 (0)20 7264 5555 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||