TOCOM Night Session Hit Record Volume on August 5

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM) announced today that the trading volume of the Night Session reached the record with 102,224 contracts on August 5 (starting at 17:00 JST of August 4 and closing at 4:00 JST of August 5)*. On August 5, the total trading volume was 269,242 contracts.

TOCOM introduced the Night Session (17:00-23:00 JST) in May 2009 at the launch of the current trading platform, and extended it trading hours until 4:00 JST in September 2010.

*Rubber market closes at 19:00 JST.

◆	Trading volume of each listed commodities on August 5, 2011 Night Session
	(17:00 JST of August 4 – 4:00 JST of August 5)
		(unit: contract)
	Listed Commodities	Trading Volume
	Gold (Standard)		66,414
	Gold Mini		12,871
	Silver		798
	Platinum		7,571
	Platinum Mini		808
	Palladium		277
	Crude Oil		3,516
	Gasoline		6,524
	Kerosene		2,165
	Gas Oil		0
	Chukyo Gasoline		95
	Chukyo Kerosene		94
	Rubber		1,080
	Nikkei-TOCOM Commodity Index (Contract-Day)		11
	Nikkei-TOCOM Commodity Index (Contract-Month)		0
	Total		102,224