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Futures Trading Webinars and Events [View all Webinars and Events]
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Drew Wilkins | dt Pro 101 - Get Started with Our Flagship Trading Platform | 07/29 | 01:30 PM CST |
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Burton Schlichter | Capture the Move! A predictive not descriptive look at today's market. | 07/29 | 02:30 PM CST |
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Scott Hoffman | Breakout Trading Insights | 07/29 | 03:30 PM CST |
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Kurt Pfafflin | dt Pro 201 - Intermediate Order Entry, DOM & Chart Execution Techniques | 08/03 | 03:30 PM CST |
Commodity News [View all Commodity News]
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| European companies and positive job data boost stocks | Thu, Jul 29 12:00 PM |
| Stock index futures gained on Thursday morning, boosted by positive earnings figures from the European markets and job data which showed a slight but sustained recovery. Just before markets opened, Dow Jones Industrial Average index futures were up 55 points to 10,503, while S&P 500 futures gained 7.4 points to 1,109.5 and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 10.25 points to 1,880. | |
| Silver drops as gold settles slightly higher | Wed, Jul 28 05:56 PM |
| The two metals diverged in Wednesday trading, with physical demand and investors seeking a discount moving into gold, while bearish economic data hit silver. | |
| Gold's future depends on major shocks, says economist | Wed, Jul 28 04:37 PM |
| Julian Jessop, the chief international economist at Capital Economics, opined in the paper's Investor's Notebook that the price of gold looks set to slip, barring some major "shock" from the euro-zone, Japan or China. | |
| Futures Industry News | |
| CFTC to begin publishing large-trader report for futures markets | Thu, Jul 22 03:26 PM |
| Transparency appears to be the watchword in Washington, as regulatory agencies strive [to] implement the reforms of new financial legislation. | |
| New Eris Exchange will trade interest rate swaps as futures | Wed, Jul 14 01:31 PM |
| A group of Chicago firms are working on a new exchange that will offer interest rate swaps which trade as futures contracts rather than over-the-counter derivatives. | |
| CBOE wins lawsuit to keep ISE out of index options | Thu, Jul 08 07:58 PM |
| The Chicago Board Options Exchange claimed victory in its legal battle with the International Securities Exchange, as a court in Illinois ruled that it held exclusive trading rights for Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 options. | |
| General Financial News | |
| Price of gold rises as dollar falls against other currencies | Thu, Jul 22 03:50 PM |
| The dollar sank on Thursday against the euro, British pound and Australian dollar, as investors reacted to strong equity markets and the words of Ben Bernanke. | |
| Pension funds invest more in commodities, but remain cautious | Thu, Jul 15 02:51 PM |
| There are two ways to parse this year's Financial Times/Towers Watson survey of pension funds' alternative investing. On one hand, the report, which covered investing in 2009, found that alternative investments made up 16 percent of global pension funds' assets. | |
| Chinese property market signals possible reversal | Tue, Jul 13 02:18 PM |
| In a sign that could have ramifications for global markets in both equities and commodities, Chinese property prices fell in June, the Financial Times reported on Monday. After 18 months of sometimes steady, sometimes meteoric rises, the average price of housing in 70 major cities fell slightly, by 0.1 percent. | |
