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World's biggest metals exchange takes on the gold elite

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Eddie Van Der Walt
Bloomberg News
Sunday, July 9, 2017

The world's biggest industrial metals exchange is taking on the most powerful players in the gold market with the launch on Monday of its first futures contract for the commodity since the middle of the 1980s.

The London Metal Exchange and its partners aim to grab a piece of the action in a city where almost half the world's gold changes hands. At stake are rival visions of how best to run the market, pitching the LME, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley on one side and the London Bullion Market Association representing some of the biggest trading firms on the other.

Three years in the making, the gold contract, launched alongside another for silver, aims to draw investors from the off-exchange deals that currently dominate the city's $5 trillion-a-year market. ...

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/gold-elites-challenge...



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