Tokyo Commodity Exchange today announced that January trading volume averaged 143,863 contracts per day, up 0.2 % from December 2009. The average monthly volume tops the previous month for the 6 th consecutive month, which shows that market liquidity is on a recovery trend. Despite the fact that the volume in gold standard futures, TOCOM’s most actively traded product, decreased by 14.0% from the previous month to 67,592 contracts per day, platinum standard was up 70.8% averaging 24,941 contracts per day. Platinum mini also increased by 77.5% to 2,041 contracts per day, palladium increased by 84.5% to 689 contracts per day and rubber grew by 23.5% to 15,417 contracts per day.
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