The LME offers futures and options contracts for aluminium, aluminium alloy, NASAAC ( North American Special Aluminium Alloy ), cobalt, copper, lead, molybdenum, nickel, steel billet, tin and zinc.

As the LME offers contracts with daily expiry dates of up to three months from trade date, along with longer-dated contracts up to 123 months, it also allows for cash trading.

The LME is the last exchange in Europe where open-outcry trading takes place.

The platform is a FIX-based trading platform, and has a significant and increasing share of the total LME business.

* London Metal Exchange ( LME )

The London Metal Exchange ( LME ) is the futures exchange with the world's largest market in options, and futures contracts on base and other metals.

Main entrance to the LME, at 56 Leadenhall Street in the City of London.

The LME does, however, provide trade matching and clearing services to the London bullion market and distributes gold, silver, and gold IRS ( interest rate swaps ) forward rates on behalf of the LBMA.

From 1970-77 Wolff became the Committee Chairman of the London Metal Exchange helping establishing the LME ’ s international reputation.

* Freddy Wolff obituary, American Metal Market 27 January 1988, Managing Director and Chairman of Rudolf Wolff & Co. and Chairman of the LME

The LME uses backwardation limits in emergency situations, such as in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina when Zinc warrants in New Orleans were suspended until the warehouses were checked, or to act against possible or suspected market manipulation, such tightness in particular prompts for Aluminium in early 1999.

* March 19 – The United Nations launches a political corruption investigation due to the scandal over its Iraqi Oil for Food program.

* August 13 FERC launches a formal investigation into potential misconduct in the power generating and marketing industry.

" In May of the same year, China's National Sports Commission launches its own investigation into Falun Gong.

When the costs of the project approach those of the entire U. S. space program, United States Senator Leroy Clark ( Gary Merrill ) launches an investigation of the project.

The Army launches an investigation.

It is a base for scientific research with high altitude balloons, investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things.

Tim, who by this time has risen through the ranks of the Department of Justice, launches an investigation into political corruption that will eventually lead back to Palmieri.

" Inside Covance: BUAV / ECEAE launches first ever undercover investigation in an animal testing laboratory in Germany ", press release, December 9, 2003.

Victor launches an investigation into the children's deaths, and finds no explanation for how they got the antibiotic.

These are then sent to a committee that launches an investigation and report.

Refusing to accept the police's theory of suicide, Brian launches his own investigation, determined to uncover the truth of what really happened to his brother.

McGee hides evidence of his sister's supposed crime and launches a secret investigation into the affair.

Phil quickly launches into an investigation into the murder, his first suspect being Jana.

The program, which began in the 1990s with the goal of making government space launches more affordable and reliable, resulted in the development of two launch systems, Delta IV and Atlas V. These two launch systems are the primary methods for launching U. S. military satellites.

The primary package instrumentation measures those parameters critical to all engine static firings and subsequent vehicle launches.

It seems that the refusal of this request was sufficiently devastating for Ó Rathaille to compose the bitter and mournful poem in which he launches a vitriolic attack on the new English gentry like Valentine Browne and makes reference to the failure of the Jacobites as being a primary cause for his own situation.

Enron launches EnronCredit. com which buys and sells credit risk to help companies manage the risk in trading.

* 2001-Company launches TradeStation 6 for institutional and active traders, which combines for the first time custom strategy design and testing, automated trading and intelligent direct-access execution of stock trades.

* 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

2009: BAM launches the Bridge Project, a transatlantic partnership with London ’ s Old Vic and Neal Street Productions ; productions of Chekhov ’ s The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare ’ s The Winter ’ s Tale, directed by Sam Mendes, open at BAM before touring the globe

Mike Tuffrey launches his campaign to become London Mayor with Susan Kramer and his team of London Liberal Democrats campaigners at City Hall

On 7th Sept, the Luftwaffe launches a massed attack against London and every available RAF fighter unit is flung into action, including Hornet Squadron.

* 3 April-Wilde v Queensberry: Oscar Wilde launches a criminal libel case in London against the Marquess of Queensberry, who is defended by Edward Carson.

Hundreds of steam launches, lake and river vessels, and eventually the Royal Navy's first destroyers, the Havock class, were built at Yarrow's London shipyards between 1869 and 1908.

After the Second World War, Lightoller managed a small boatyard called Richmond Slipways in London, which built motor launches for the river police.

The US military, which has been called in to secure SaintLogic, fires upon Metal Gear and a missile from its rear launches, and lands in the ocean a short distance away.

Alcazar, with a little advice from Tintin, launches an assault on Tapioca's palace during the carnival by ' borrowing ' the troupe's costumes and sneaking his men into the capital.

When Tokugawa and Oda Nobunaga launch an attack against the territory of the Takeda clan, Shingen's son, Katsuyori, launches a counterattack against the advice of other generals.

During the Blackest Night, the Guardians finally realize the accuracy of the prophecy and are imprisoned by Scar ; a rogue Guardian who launches an attack on the Corps by reviving deceased members as Black Lanterns.

launches its Teleseminar Series, uniting members nationwide via a toll-free telephone service to expert talks on relevant food safety topics.

However, Pitt suspects that Bruno von Till is aware of the approach of Interpol and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and he launches his own desperate mission with Al and members of the crew of the First Attempt in a last-ditch effort to stop von Till before he can escape and set up his nefarious drug smuggling operation somewhere else.

The rebels eventually join the Fleet as full members and after Boomer kidnaps the hybrid child Hera, the Galactica launches an attack on the Cylon Colony ( a planetoid sized space station that's essentially the Cylon homeworld ) with a combined crew of human and rebel Cylon including the Final Five.

* 1947-OSIA launches letter-writing campaign urging members ’ relatives in Italy not to vote Communist in the first democratic election in Italy ’ s history.