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Products include Base and Precious Metals, Oil, European and North American Power and Natural Gas, Coal, Emissions and Agricultural Commodities.\nThe CIT Business Support Team is one of two CIT IT sub-teams; the other team is the CIT Core Development Team. Both teams work on the trading floor in close partnership with CIT. 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