Futures markets have a safer and more efficient margining system and clearing mechanism compared to securities markets. This could attract investors and high-frequency traders to the futures exchanges ...

The Chicago-based Intelligent Medicine Exchange (IMX) has been designated a contract market by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), making it the first health care futures and options ...

CHICAGO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - In a head-to-head contest in a small corner of agricultural futures markets, a legacy spring wheat contract that has traded for more than 140 years is fending off a ...

Index futures are futures contracts where the underlying asset is a stock index. These financial derivatives allow investors to buy or sell the future value of a stock index at a predetermined price ...

Discover how options and futures differ in the financial market, focusing on obligations, trading hours, and their roles for investors and institutions.

Competition between the dominant futures exchange and the major securities exchanges is driven by two new factors -- the death of LIBOR and the competitive insignificance of trade matching. The death ...