Exchanges deal failure to open up futures market

Feb. 1 | LONDON (Reuters) - The failed merger of Deutsche Boerse AG and NYSE Euronext has highlighted their grip on Europe's futures and options trade, raising the prospect of reform to open the market to new entrants. European futures and options trading,...

Futures Higher as Facebook Fever Sweeps Street; Amazon Shares Plummet

Feb. 1 | The Dow Jones industrial Average (DJIA) is poised to open sharply higher this morning, as Dow Mini futures are trading more than 90 points above fair value. Wall Street is taking its positive cues from strong manufacturing surveys out of Europe and China,...

CFTC Weighs New Rules for High-Frequency Derivatives Trading

Jan. 31 | The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is working to complete Dodd-Frank Act rules for derivatives markets, is weighing new rules and oversight of companies that use automated and high-frequency trading systems.

Futures Rise as Putin Vows to Cut State Role: Russia Overnight

Jan. 31 | Russian equity futures rose as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged to reduce government involvement in the economy and stocks traded at the cheapest level among emerging markets for the first time in two months.

CFTC Weighs Rules for High-Frequency Derivatives Trading Under Dodd-Frank

Jan. 31 | The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is working to complete Dodd-Frank Act rules for derivatives markets, is weighing new rules and oversight of companies that use automated and high-frequency trading systems.

CFTC panel to review high-frequency trading

Jan. 31 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is expected to review a rapid-fire technique that allows traders to buy and sell shares at lightning speed, a step that could help it better understand the impact of an activity critics say...

CFTC panel to review high-frequency trading

Jan. 31 | The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is expected to review a rapid-fire technique that allows traders to buy and sell shares at lightning speed, a step that could help it better understand the impact ...

Grains futures, livestock prices slide

Jan. 30 | Grains futures dropped in early trading Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Comex Gold Weaker On Corrective Pullback; Firmer U.S. Dollar Index

Jan. 30 | (Kitco News) ? Comex April gold futures prices are trading weaker Monday morning, on a corrective, profit-taking pullback after prices Friday hit a seven-week high. The key "outside markets are also in a bearish posture Monday, as the U.S. dollar...

U.S. Stock Futures Slide on Greece Debt Concerns; Thomas & Betts in Focus

Jan. 30 | U.S. stock futures are trading sharply lower this morning, as Wall Street warily eyes Greece and the euro-zone's burgeoning debt crisis. Over the weekend, Germany proposed that a European Union commissioner be appointed with veto power over Greece?s...