List of commodity traders
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Traders in the corn pit at the Chicago Board of Trade
Commodity traders are people or companies who speculate and trade in commodities as diverse as metals and spices.
Historical[]
- Fuggers[1]
- Jacques Cœur[1]
- Tripp of Dordrecht[1][2]
- Welsers
Individuals[]
- Marc Rich - oil
- John D. Arnold - natural gas
- Louis Bacon - cotton
- Jay Gould - gold
Modern companies[]
- Archer Daniels Midland
- Bunge Limited
- Cargill
- Castleton Commodities International
- COFCO Group
- Czarnikow
- Glencore
- Gunvor
- IXM
- Koch Industries
- Louis Dreyfus Group
- Mercuria Energy Trading
- Noble Group
- Phibro
- Targray
- Trafigura
- Vitol[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b c Chalmin, Philippe (1987), Traders and Merchants: Panorama of International Commodity Trading, Taylor & Francis, p. 6, ISBN 9783718604357
- ^ J. N. Ball (1977), Merchants and Merchandise: The Expansion of Trade in Europe 1500-1630, Croom Helm, pp. 119–121, ISBN 9780312530082
- ^ "Top ten global oil and commodities traders". The London Telegraph. 15 Apr 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
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