Knowledge about Commodities Markets in Pakistan.
It covers all the details for commodities market their types and institutes which do this business in Pakistan
2. COMMODITY MARKET
• Commodity Market: - A commodity market is a physical or virtual marketplace for buying,
selling, and trading raw or primary products. There are currently about 50 major commodity
markets worldwide that facilitate trade in approximately 100 primary commodities.
• Types of Commodity Markets
1: - Soft Commodities 2: - Hard Commodities
4. HARD COMMODITIES
• Hard Commodities are those which are Mined or Extracted
• Examples: -
• Gold, Rubber, Coal etc.
5. COMMODITY MARKETS IN PAKISTAN
• Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited (formerly National Commodity
Exchange Limited - NCEL) is Pakistan's first futures commodity market having
its registered Head office in Karachi, Sindh. It is the only company in Pakistan
to provide a centralized and regulated place for commodity futures trading
and is regulated by Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP). It
has started full trading activities on 11 May 2007.
6. CONTINUE
• The exchange registered trading volume of Rs 306 billion in October 2018. It is licensed and regulated
by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
• PMEX is owned by National Bank of Pakistan Limited (33.98%), Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited
(28.41%), ISE Towers REIT Management Limited (17.76%), LSE Financial Service Limited (7.25%), Pak
Brunei Investment Company Limited (6.80%), Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (2.90%), Pak Kuwait
Investment Company Limited (2.90%), Individuals (0.0001%).
• Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited started its operations in May 2007 as a fully electronic exchange
with nationwide reach.
7. CONTINUE
• Pakistan Mercantile Exchange initially started trading in Gold only. This listing was followed by the first
gold physical delivery in August 2007. Additional Products were subsequently launched – IRRI -6 rice in
March 2008 Palm Olien futures in June 2008 and KIBOR futures in Jan 2009. Crude Oil and Silver
contracts were listed in Nov 2009. Recently the Sugar contract was also added in June 27, 2011.
• The main commodities traded on the Exchange have been Gold, Silver and Crude Oil. There are various
contracts in each. Gold has eight contracts namely Gold 1 ounce, Gold 100 ounce, Gold 1 Tola, Gold 50
Tola, Gold 100 tola, Gold Kilo, Gold 100 g, and Minigold 10 g. Tola gold and minigold are deliverable
contracts. Furthermore, there are two contracts in Silver – 100 ounce and 500 ounce and two contracts
in Crude Oil – 10 barrels and 100 barrels. The smaller lot sizes for Silver and Crude Oil were introduced
very recently in June 2011.
9. MEMBERS AND REVENUE
• Currently, PMEX has 300 plus members. During FY17 the total trading volume
reached PKR 1.3 trillion with crude oil, currency pairs and gold constituting
the major chunk of trading volume. 110 The healthy trading is reflected
through the surge in PMEX index which touched 3,232 points at the end of
CY17, depicting a YoY growth of 5.57 percent.