New financial players, like South Africa's Nufcor Group and Evolution Markets, a New York-based over the counter brokerage firm, have become active in uranium contracts in the last couple of years, while deep-pocketed investors have financed new uranium exploration operations.
"All these exchanges are setting records, " in terms of the number of contracts changing hands at places like the New York Mercantile Exchange, where brokerage houses will take a cut for each transaction.