IMC Financial Markets, sometimes referred to as IMC Trading, is a

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for various financial instruments listed on exchanges throughout the world.Reuters
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IMC is a technology-driven trading firm active in over 100 trading venues throughout the world and offering liquidity to over 200,000 securities. IMC makes markets in the major exchange-traded instruments – equities, bonds, commodities, and currencies – on 100 exchanges worldwide and is a significant liquidity provider on the

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, CBOE,

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, and CME exchanges.

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