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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:05:00 GMT

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Getting a hang of currency futures (Daily News Analysis)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:02:00 GMT

Futures and options are not alien to investors in India. Indeed, as more and more financial products are made available, investors could well be in a quandary over what to trade.

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Traders Start Snapping Up U.S. Carbon Futures On The Cheap (Earth2Tech)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:39:29 GMT

Trading in preparation for America’s first mandated cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions started on Friday on the Climate Futures Exchange. Futures and options contracts for 70,000 permits were traded under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cooperative of 10 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states whose governments have agreed to cap the emissions from power generation...

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Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® Announces The Successful Launch Of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Futures And Options Contracts (Mondo Visione)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:31:22 GMT

Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE"), a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Designated Contract Market, announces the successful launch of RGGI Futures and Options contracts.

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Speculators Bigger Players in Futures, Options Markets Than Thought (Seeking Alpha)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:09:31 GMT

Donald Johnson submits: Speculators hold 49% of oil futures and options contracts, much more than the 38% previously thought, The Wall Street Journal reports here. The impact graphs in Ann Davis' Aug. 15 story: The scale of the recent revision and questions about the reliability and transparency of data in this market are feeding into efforts by Congress to impose restrictions on energy...

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Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® First Regulated Exchange To Offer Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Futures And Options Contracts (Mondo Visione)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:59:24 GMT

Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE"), a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulated Designated Contract Market, will begin trading Friday, August 15, 2008 a Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative futures and options on futures contract (RGGI futures and options), each of which represent 1,000 RGGI allowances.

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MF Global Announces Exercise of $60 Million Option (Business Wire)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:28:00 GMT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MF Global Ltd. (NYSE: MF), the world’s leading broker of exchange-listed futures and options, today announced that the initial

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Data Revision Reveals Almost Half of NYMEX Crude Oil Futures and Options Positions Are Held By Speculators (cryptogon.com)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:08:05 GMT

Mmm hmm. Via: Reuters: A quiet data revision that has boosted by nearly 25 percent the number of oil futures contracts U.S. regulators think are held by speculators is raising eyebrows in the energy trading community. The revision means that speculators controlled 48 percent of the open interest in NYMEX crude oil futures and options as of July [...]

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MF Global's net slides 80%, but stock up on earnings beat (Market Watch)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:01:00 GMT

BOSTION (MarketWatch) -- MF Global, the troubled broker of exchange-traded futures and options, on Thursday said its fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 80% from a year earlier.

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MF Global's quarterly net income slides 80% (Market Watch)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:09:00 GMT

BOSTION (MarketWatch) -- MF Global, the troubled broker of exchange-traded futures and options, on Thursday said its fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 80% from a year earlier.

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UPDATE 2-MF Global Q1 profit beats analysts' view, shares rise (Reuters UK)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:04:40 GMT

Aug 7 (Reuters) - Futures and options broker MF Global Ltd posted a quarterly profit that beat analysts' estimates by a wide margin, helped by an increase in trading volume and transaction-based business, sending its shares up 12 percent.

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MF Global profit falls 80% (Market Watch)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:47:22 GMT

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- MF Global , a broker of exchange-traded futures and options, said Thursday that its fiscal first quarter profit fell 80% from a year ago, to $14.4 million, or 12 cents a share, from $729 million, or 70 cents a share. Total revenues fell to $913.9 million from $1.57 billion. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they...

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MF Global Reports Fiscal 2009 First Quarter Results (Business Wire)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:30:00 GMT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MF Global Ltd. (NYSE: MF), the world’s leading broker of exchange-listed futures and options, today reported financial results for

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CME Group Expands Equity Index Product Team (Mondo Visione)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:42:38 GMT

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange and the world's leading marketplace for equity index futures and options, today announced that it has expanded its equity index product team by appointing Helen Flanagan as Director, Equity Markets, and Phillip Hatzopoulos as Director, Equity Products - OTC. These newly created positions are designed to focus on selling...

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European Climate Exchange Monthly Report & Exchange Monthly Volume - July 2008 (Mondo Visione)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:06:22 GMT

July Highlights: ECX July volumes reached a total of 346 Mt, exceeding the previous monthly record in June (295 Mt). July 2008 volume represents almost a three-fold increase over the same month last year. Average daily volumes for the month of July in EUA and CER futures and options rose to 15 Mt (15,056 lots) from 14 Mt (14,408 lots) at the end of June. Screen-traded EUA futures...

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The Fed Hedge (Seeking Alpha)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:46:02 GMT

Paul Frischer submits: The CME Group announcement this week to launch 3 - month Overnight Index Swaps [OIS] futures and options brings far more than the arbitrage of 3- month Fed Funds and 3- month Libor. It brings natural trading to commercial real estate derivatives and the ISE Alternative Market. In March 2008, the ISE Exchange announced the offering of Rexx Index commercial real...

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Chicago Board of Trade (In Photos)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:07:03 GMT

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is the world’s oldest futures and options exchange. It was established in 1948 and since 1930 has operated out of this building on 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago according to this Wikipedia page. Possible Batman “The Dark Knight” spoilers ahead. Don’t read on if you’re going to watch the movie! [...]

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iFinix Corp. Finalizes Acquisition of Futures and Options Firm (PR News Wire )

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Acquisition Expands iFinix's Product Offerings, Brand Awareness GARDEN CITY, N.Y., July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- iFinix Corp (Pink Sheets: INIX), a provider of real-time financial information and services to active traders and to the securities industry, announced today it has finalized the acquisition of 80% of privately held ProActive Futures, Plainview, NY, a futures and...

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Stellar Trading Systems To Connect To MEFF (Mondo Visione)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:35:00 GMT

Stellar Trading Systems (Stellar) and MEFF today announced that Stellar has completed development on a trading gateway to connect its Stellar spreadMachine platform to MEFF. MEFF is the official Spanish exchange for financial futures and options, forming part of the BME Spanish Exchanges group.

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MF Global Declares Quarterly Dividend Payments for Preference Shares (Business Wire)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:05:00 GMT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MF Global Ltd. (NYSE: MF), a leading broker of exchange-listed futures and options, today announced that the company’s board of

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