Zinc Futures (ZNC)

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CME Group now offers a Zinc futures contract that addresses challenges and opportunities facing the zinc industry, including commercial clients and merchant traders.

The physically-delivered global Zinc futures contract is designed to meet the needs of the evolving zinc marketplace and builds on the long history of our benchmark physically-delivered futures contracts. Designed with input from the industry, this contract will offer a sustainable, liquid and cost-competitive vehicle to manage price risk for the whole zinc value chain. It will also enable customers to benefit from our easily accessible electronic execution, trusted clearing house model, and streamlined delivery process.

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metals@cmegroup.com
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Zinc is now Global

Zinc has now expanded globally with the announcement of storage and warehouse facilities available in the following locations:

The Contract

Our new Special High Grade (SHG) Zinc futures contract (ZNC) offers the ability to deliver or take delivery of Special High Grade Zinc ingots in a timely, transparent and efficient fashion at CME Group. The contract is registered and regulated by facilities in the United States, and now Europe and Asia with the recent expansion of storage and delivery warehouses.

ZNC trades on CME Globex, the foremost global electronic trading system for futures and options with true intraday pricing transparency. Cleared OTC trades can be executed on CME ClearPort. Both CME Globex and CME ClearPort may be accessed via CME Direct, our free execution platform.

Benefits

Physically-delivered monthly futures contract with storage and delivery warehouses recently announced to expand to Europe and Asia.
True intraday price and spread transparency across the futures curve
Security through centralized clearing, guaranteed counterparty credit and segregation of customer funds through CME Clearing
Daily mark-to-market of positions
Accessible on CME Globex and for submission for clearing through CME ClearPort