the Egyptian Commodity Exchange: a Story to Tell
(World News Egypt)

It was not until 2004 that I first realized that we need to revive the commodity exchange in Egypt, which was set up in the 19th century and traded mostly in Cotton but got shut off after the 1952 military coup and remained dormant since then. Commodity exchanges all over the world were skyrocketing then, with trillions of outstanding contracts, whether spot or future contracts. ......