Zinc, lead, other metals debut trading on Shanghai physical platform

Mercuria Holdings

18/10/2018 11:34

BEIJING, Oct 18 (Reuters) - 
    * A total of 41 transactions were made on cash-settled lead,
zinc,
tin and nickel futures warrants in their trading debut on
Thursday, the Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) said in a
statement
    * Total volume reached 252 million yuan ($36.3 million), it
said
    * Chalco, Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group  000630.SZ ,
Sinosteel
 SINOS.UL , Trafigura TRAFGF.UL  and Mercuria  7190.T  were
among the 44 companies that transacted using the platform
    * The bourse said it will add more products into the
standard
warrants trading platform and will look into launching
non-standard warrants trading and over-the-counter derivatives
in order to meet market demand
    * ShFE started trading copper and aluminium futures warrants
in
May    

($1 = 6.9364 Chinese yuan)

 (Reporting by Muyu Xu and Dominique Patton
Editing by Manolo Serapio Jr.)
 ((muyu.xu@thomsonreuters.com; +86 010 66271298;))