Osaka Mercantile Exchange (OME) was a

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based in

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

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that merged with the

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...

-based Central Japan Commodity Exchange in 2007. The exchange was formed on 1 October 1997 from the merger of the ''Osaka Textile Exchange'' and the ''Kobe Rubber Exchange''. As of 1 January 2007 it merged into the ''Central Japan Commodity Exchange'' (C-COM). Trading was conducted at six specified session times through the day. Commodities traded were as follows: *

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, for delivery at various warehouses in Japan *

Nickel Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive but large pieces are slow to ...

, for delivery to designated warehouses * RSS3

rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, and ...

, for delivery

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

Rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, and ...

index, cash settled on an average of rubber prices at eight worldwide exchanges * TSR20

, for delivery at

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warehouses

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Commodity exchanges in Japan Companies based in Osaka Prefecture 1997 establishments in Japan {{finance stub

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