CME lowers gold, silver, copper, natgas margins

The CME Group has lowered margins for natural gas, gold, silver, copper, lean hog and live cattle futures, effective after close of business on Tuesday, November 20.

CME, the biggest operator of US futures exchanges, cut initial margins on COMEX 100 Gold Futures 18.5 per cent to US$7,425 a contract from US$9,113, but left maintenance margins for the yellow metal unchanged.

The exchange operator trimmed maintenance margins to trade silver to US$11,000 per contract, from US$12,500, and initial margins to US$12,100 from US$16,875 per contract.

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