Reports ComTech Forecasts 2015 Global CTRM Market at $1.68 | Page 11

2015–2020 CTRM Market Outlook

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als has continued to be soft. Without a broad recovery in the
global economic outlook, particularly in the Chinese market,
ComTech believes the metals trading markets will perform at
or slightly below average compared to the wider global CTRM
markets, at about 5% per year.

Within the last decade, the market has increasing seen
the rise of trading companies that have expanded their focus
from a single commodity or single class of commodities (such

as energy, ags, softs, metals) and are now trading a broader
portfolios of commodities. While these global-scale companies
may be commonly identified with a particular class of commodity (such as Cargill in agricultural commodities), they are, in
fact, trading a broad array of commodities. For this “multi-class”
market segment, we anticipate the growth rate will be slightly
higher than the market average,