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LIFFE

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london international financial futures and options exchange: an exchange for trading financial futures and options. Established in 1982 as the London international financial futures Exchange, it offered contracts on interest rates denominated in most of the world's major currencies until 1992, when it merged with the london traded options market, adding equity options to its product range. In 1996 it merged with the London commodity exchange, adding a variety of soft commodity and agricultural commodity contracts to its financial portfolio. From November 1998, trading gradually migrated from the floor of the exchange to screen-based trading. It was acquired by the Euronext exchange in 2002 and is now part of the nyse euronext group as NYSE Liffe.

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