Eurex, an on-line system owned by Swiss and German exchanges, has whittled the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange's share of the German bund futures contract from 70% to 10%.

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To buy a futures contract you do not need to buy or sell actual food and so financial players entered the market to make money from these contracts.

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