Daily volume and open interest, the total number of open long and short positions in the CME lumber futures, are very low. The lack of hedging, trading, and speculative activity has caused ...

The CME’s continuous physical lumber futures contract fell 22.99% in Q2 and was down 21.24% over the first six months of 2024 ...

Now, CME Group is launching a new lumber futures contract August 8 that is meant to facilitate deliveries and draw in more participants, potentially smoothing out prices with a number of changes.

The CME Group announced after a routine biannual ... (It also widened limits for oats, rough rice, lumber futures and other grain futures contracts.) Corn: 40¢ per bu. (currently at 25¢ per ...