- Wheat for March delivery rose 1.2% to $5.47 1/2 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade on Friday, with futures getting a boost as major export purchasers like Egypt and Algeria have made large buys ...

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This is the minimum amount which is required to buy "x" number of lots of a particular commodity to trade in futures market.