CME Group to Launch Tungsten Futures to Meet Rising Demand for Critical Minerals
CME Group will launch financially settled Tungsten futures, based on Fastmarkets' APT assessment, with trading starting by early Q1 2027 pending regulatory review. The move extends CME's critical minerals suite amid record metals demand: its metals complex traded 1.2 million contracts daily in the first nine months of 2026, up 41% year-over-year.
Key figures
- Launch timing
- early Q1 2027
- Metals volume yoy
- 41%
- Tungsten market size
- over $20 billion
- Metals daily contracts
- 1200000
- Tungsten annual production
- 85,000-95,000 metric tons
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