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NYMEX

The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) trades commodities like cotton, oil, sugar, gold, and lawyers.

The NYMEX is the largest physical commodities futures exchange on earth and is sometimes called the Merc. (Sounds fancier than it is.)

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