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NYMEX, or the New York Mercantile Exchange, is an exchange where commodities are regularly traded.
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Finance allah shmoop what is nynex Sounds like a snooty
- 00:07
new fusion restaurant in soho doesn't it Well in fact
- 00:11
it isn't the new york mercantile exchange or the merc
- 00:15
if you want to sound like an insider is just
- 00:18
a trading post which covers the basics in the land
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- 00:21
of commodities like gold sugar natural gas cotton and corrupt
- 00:26
congressmen you can trade them now on a fantasy league
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It's this building here in manhattan right along the hudson
- 00:32
perfect for anyone second guessing any of their investment decisions
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although in reality there are now zero transactions done inside
- 00:41
the actual exchange This being the twenty first century and
- 00:45
all everything is elektronik Those recently is two thousand sixteen
- 00:49
If you prefer to get your hands feet and soul
- 00:51
dirty you could head on down to one north end
- 00:54
avenue hop into the pit there and scream and jest
- 00:58
iq yah late wildly along with a handful of others
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on the physical trading floor Yeah listen to him scream
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but because investors by and large traded in a trek
- 01:07
to the exchange with a few clicks on their mac
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well everything is now entirely on the interwebs as they
- 01:15
call them in the midwest But while the physical location
- 01:18
today is just houses well webs Yeah you can actually
- 01:22
trade on the nymex in your underwear It's Kind of 00:01:25.003 --> [endTime] cool
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