CME Group, CF Benchmarks launch new DeFi reference rates for Aave, Curve and Synthetix

CME Group and CF Benchmarks launched new DeFi reference rates and real-time indices for Aave, Curve, and Synthetix. The reference rates and real-time indices are not tradeable products, but tran...

Jamie Dimon Predicts a Recession. M2 Money Supply Helps Make the Case.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon raised concerns about the economy sliding into a recession yet again on Tuesday. While the U.S. economy continues to be the strongest globally, rising interest rates and...

Wall Street Is Saying ‘No’ to a Bitcoin Rebound. Bearish Bets Are Piling Up.

Bitcoin has been licking its wounds from two-year lows in the wake of crypto exchange FTX’s bankruptcy this month. Sentiment may be cautiously improving in the digital-asset world, but investors on Wa...

After slamming FTX, CME moves to allow futures trading on its platform

CME Group is following in the footsteps of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX.US, proposing to regulators its own plan to offer derivatives trading directly to consumers.  CME Group, one of the largest exc...

CME set to launch ether options

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) announced plans to launch ether options.  The move comes as ether derivatives are surging ahead of the Ethereum blockchain’s move to proof-of-stake, dubbed ...

Is the Stock Market Closed on Juneteenth?

U.S. stock markets will be closed to observe Juneteenth for the first time in history.  The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will shut down on Monday, June 20, in observation of the newest federal h...

Crypto Exchanges Set Their Sights On The Sleepy Futures Industry

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, … [+] speaks during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee hearing in Washingto...

Canadian Wheat Futures to be Launched by CME Group

Nasdaq-listed CME Group announced on Wednesday that it will launch Canadian Wheat (Platts) futures on June 13, subject to regulatory review and to the rules of CBOT. According to the press release, Ca...

CME Group Hits Quarterly International ADV of 7.3 Million Contracts in Q1

One of the well-known derivatives marketplaces in the world, CME Group has recently released its average daily volume (ADV) for the first quarter of 2022 (Q1 2022). During the reported period, CME Gro...

CME Group Sees 280% Jump in Block and EFRP FX Clearing

CME Group announced on Tuesday that the trading activities in blocks and exchange for related positions (EFRPs) across its offered foreign exchange (forex) products jumped by more than 280 percent yea...

CME Group Rolls Out Micro Bitcoin, Ether Options to Up Crypto Exposure

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, a leading derivatives marketplace, expanded its suite of derivative offerings on Monday by launching micro-sized Bitcoin and Ether options to cover more pa...

CME Group Announces Changes in the Executive Management Team

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, a leading United States derivatives    exchange  Exchange An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, secu...

CME Group Posts 22.5% YoY Q4 2021 Operating Income Jump

CME Group (Nasdaq: CME), which operates a major US derivatives    exchange  Exchange An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other ...

ConocoPhillips, CME Group and Others Boosted Dividends

Energy exploration and production giant ConocoPhillips (ticker: COP) said it will pay an ordinary dividend of 46 cents a share and a second-quarter variable return of cash of 30 cents a share. That’s ...

Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.

“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...

CME Group to Introduce 20-Year US Treasury Bond Futures

On January 10, CME Group, a major security and commodity exchange company, announced that it will launch futures on 20-year US Treasury bonds on March 7. The 20-year bond future will help investors be...