Electronically traded gold futures on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) accounted for 50 percent of all the daily volume listed gold traded on June 23 in North America. A total of 36, 273 contracts were traded electronically June 23 of which 27, 700 were full sized gold futures and 8, 573 were mini-sized. CBOT senior vice president of business development, Robert Ray, said that CBOT complex develops into one of the key roles in metals price discovery as it meets marketplace’s preference and push it process with speedy and much more direct. (June 27)