commodity exchange

noun

1. an exchange for the buying and selling of futures contracts on commodities, as butter, coffee, sugar, and grains.

Word History and Origins

Origin of commodity exchange¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Other warning signs are not on stock markets but commodity exchanges.

From BBC

Currently the credits are often traded bilaterally on a project-by-project basis and through commodity exchanges.

From Reuters

The move to replenish ICE stocks removes one of the market's last supports and may eventually provide consumers respite from high retail coffee prices which always lag moves on global commodity exchanges.

From Reuters

Trading volumes of copper have tumbled by up to a third on global commodity exchanges so far this year, and those in most other industrial metals also slumped, with nickel hardest hit.

From Reuters

Lastly, and most controversially in the eyes of the traditional commodity exchanges, FTX would automatically liquidate the on-exchange assets of users who become too indebted.

From Los Angeles Times