TOKYO: The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) may start trading of its electric power futures contract as early as January, part of an effort to return to profitability by expanding its product ...

Currently, only Osaka’s exchange is operating as well as the Tokyo Commodity Exchange where oil futures are traded.

The Japan Exchange Group (JPX) and the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) are working to reach a basic agreement by the end of March to merge and create the country’s first all-in-one bourse.

Meanwhile, the cost of gold futures on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange was around 8,609 yen ($64.44) on Tuesday.

Japan's Osaka Dojima Commodity Exchange will end trading in rice futures, it said on Friday, nearly 300 years after they began trading as the first product on the world's oldest futures exchange.