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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
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      Basis trade freakout (low key)

      Why is everyone so worried about Treasury futures?

    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Hedge funds
      Hedge fund bets could spark turmoil in US Treasuries, BIS warns

      Short positions in 2-year Treasury futures reached record highs in August

      A trader in New York
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Howard W. Lutnick
      Howard Lutnick tilts at Chicago’s flagship futures — again

      Electronic trading pioneer plans a third assault on CME’s position in Treasury futures market

      Howard Lutnick
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Oil
      Oil caught up in banking fears as US crude drops below $70 a barrel

      Prices slide on worries that stress in financial sector will spread to broader economy

      oil pump jack and flare in a US oil field
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Markets
      Turbulence strains interest rate markets as traders bet on Fed cuts

      Dramatic moves force futures halt while investors resort to phones to arrange big deals

      Federal Reserve building
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Oil
      Chronicle of an oil shock foretold

      Crude times

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      US interest rates
      Investors drop bets on falling US interest rates in face of stubborn inflation

      Futures markets signal possibility of no Federal Reserve rate cuts before end of year

      The Federal Reserve building
    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Review urges LME to toughen standards on market distortions

      Independent report criticises exchange for lack of circuit breakers in March nickel crisis

      A worker mans a furnace during the nickel smelting process at Indonesian mining company PT Vale’s smelting plant in Soroako, South Sulawesi
    • Tuesday, 6 September, 2022
      ExplainerEnergy crisis
      Why are Europe’s power producers running out of cash?

      Despite selling electricity at record prices, the industry is sliding into a liquidity crisis

      A light on at a home near an electricity transmission tower
    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Energy crisis
      Power producers call for collateral change to avert ‘Lehman’ moment

      European electricity generators seek urgent action amid ‘grave concern’ over liquidity strains

      High voltage power lines in Dampierre-en-Burly, France
    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      Derivative exchanges
      Wall Street brokers question FTX futures trading plan

      Cryptocurrency exchange would replace intermediaries with automated risk management

      Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX chief executive
    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      Oil futures
      Texts reveal UK traders exulting over negative oil price in 2020

      ‘Please don’t tell anyone what happened today lads,’ message from court papers said, as WTI hit minus $37

      Key crude storage facilities for West Texas Intermediate at Cushing, Oklahoma.
    • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
      News in-depthHedge funds
      Market turmoil splits hedge funds into macro winners and tech losers

      War and rising inflation widen the gap between best and worst performers

    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
      LexOil
      Oil supply chain: spiralling margin calls elevate risk of Lehman moment Premium content

      The industry has a racy reputation and a patchy record, but these are exceptional times

      An oil tanker in New York Harbor
    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      News in-depth
      Hong Kong breaks Singapore’s grip on China stock futures

      Battle between rival exchanges for control comes as demand booms for Chinese equities

      People wearing protective masks walk past screens outside the Hong Kong Exchanges
    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      Commodities
      ED&F Man plans new $1bn debt restructuring

      London broker raises $300mn of fresh financing to tap commodities boom

      A worker sits in the cabin of a harvesting machine in sugar beet field
    • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
      Cryptocurrencies
      Coinbase wades into crypto derivatives with deal for futures exchange

      Cryptocurrency exchange platform buys FairX, which launched with oil and equities contracts

      An illustration of a coinbase logo feflected on a mobile phone screen
    • Wednesday, 29 December, 2021
      US Treasury bonds
      Hedge funds bet against market pessimism on US economic outlook

      Some players anticipate steepening yield curve despite it being a trade that inflicted pain this year

      View of the eagle sculpture that stands outside the Federal Reserve building in Washingon DC
    • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
      NatWest Group
      NatWest pleads guilty to US charges over spoofing Treasury markets

      UK-based bank to pay $35m penalty over fraud schemes conducted in London, US and Singapore

      NatWest logo on building
    • Friday, 5 November, 2021
      US equities
      US equities and government bonds rally after jobs data top forecasts

      Stocks bolstered by promising trial results from Pfizer for its Covid pill

      A ‘Now Hiring’ sign outside a shoe store in Florida
    • Friday, 29 October, 2021
      Equities
      US stocks close out best month of the year

      Weak earnings from Apple and Amazon focus investors’ attention on supply constraints and inflation

      A man leaves an Apple store in China
    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
      Libor transition
      Traders take up derivatives tied to Libor replacement

      Sofr-linked futures and swaps gather volume despite lenders’ hesitation over new benchmark

      An array of US bank notes
    • Monday, 2 August, 2021
      Sovereign bonds
      US government bonds rally after disappointing factory data

      Wall Street stocks lose steam over concerns that ‘peak growth’ has passed

      Wall Street sign and a US flag
    • Monday, 21 June, 2021
      Commodities
      Ex-Deutsche Bank trader sentenced to prison in ‘spoofing’ case

      Former London-based metals trader James Vorley jailed in US for a year and a day

    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      Oil & Gas industry
      Panic buying sends US petrol prices above $3 a gallon

      Urban hubs in the south-east hit especially hard as Colonial pipeline shutdown enters 6th day

      A man fills canisters with fuel at a petrol station in South Carolina on Tuesday
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