Whois & Analysis for lme.com

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the futures exchange with the world's largest market in options and futures contracts on base and other metals.

As the LME offers contracts with daily expiry dates of up to three months from trade date, weekly contracts to six months, and monthly contracts up to 123 months, it also allows for cash trading.

It offers hedging, worldwide reference pricing, and the option of physical delivery to settle contracts.

In July 2012, LME's shareholders voted to sell the exchange to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing for £1.4 billion.

Trade, or commerce, involves the transfer of goods and/or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

A network that allows trade is called a market.

Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.

The major source of revenue of a group or company is the indicator of its relevant industry.

When a large group has multiple sources of revenue generation, it is considered to be working in different industries.

Manufacturing industry became a key sector of production and labour in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, upsetting previous mercantile and feudal economies.

This came through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the production of steel and coal.

Risk is the potential of gaining or losing something of value.

Values (such as physical health, social status, emotional well-being or financial wealth) can be gained or lost when taking risk resulting from a given action or inaction, foreseen or unforeseen.

Risk can also be defined as the intentional interaction with uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a potential, unpredictable, and uncontrollable outcome; risk is a consequence of action taken in spite of uncertainty.

To invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future.