The paper deals with the Commodity Exchange and it's role and meaning in international business. The paper attempts to give an answer to the question why is stock market essential for today's business. Exchanges are one of the most important factors of modern financial systems, especially in developed markets of economic systems. On Commodity Exchanges we can find the goods at the standard label by stock market (in which all characteristics of the goods are expressed), the respective lots (quantity), so that each new delivery is identical as previous. This means that there is no goods on commodity exchanges, however goods are sold according to prescribed standards. Most goods on commodities exchange are like coffee, sugar, cereals, cotton, non-ferrous metals, etc. Markets have been evolving a very long course during human history, from the meeting of traders in the pubs all the way up to electronic commerce, that allow us modern technology and the internet. Forward market represents and promotes a stable business environment in which investment creates optimism, and greatly contributes to economic development, while futures business on the commodity exchanges are a modern form of stock market business and they are listed and explained in the application of the most important futures at the stock exchanges, such as forwards, futures, options and swaps. This work is divided into six parts: The history of Commodity markets, Commodity Exchange organization, Business in the stock market, futures market, Commodity Exchanges in the world and in Croatia, and in the end a discussion.