mercantile exchange noun [C]

(Finance )

often used in the name of exchanges where contracts to buy or sell raw materials, agricultural products, etc. (commodities) are traded:

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, the contract for delivery of oil in February reached $37.73 a barrel.

⇨ COMMODITY EXCHANGE

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