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Since his days as a student of future Fed Chairman Arthur Burns at Columbia University in 1950, Greenspan has been deeply convinced of the intertwined evils of inflation and deficit spending, and...
Market Analysis
Since early September coffee prices have rallied from $1.15 per pound to nearly $1.40. “If they don’t get decent rain, it will be $1.50 or more, easy,” says John P. Casey, president of Anderson & Co....
Back in 2004, when people still did things like build new houses, lumber futures were trading at $460 per 1,000 square feet; but with the housing market now in shambles, the lumber industry has been...
After being range-bound between 1550 and 1575, the S&P E-mini finally broke through, setting an all-time high of 1586.75. “This market completely ignores bad news,” says Larry Levin, president of...
Managed Money
MFA President Jack Gaine met with Sir Andrew Large, chairman of the Hedge Fund Working Group (HFWG), and Florence Lombard, CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), to discuss...
One of the hottest topics in the futures markets these days is algorithmic trading. The financial press is awash with story after story about the rise of algorithmic trading, and a trader would be...
Options Strategy
A trader is concerned about a decline in the U.S. equity markets during the first quarter of 2008 and wants some portfolio protection in the form of S&P 500 Index put options. The put buyer must pay...
New For Traders
Eurex Repo, the electronic repo market of Eurex, has created a pan-European market for collateralized money market transactions. Eurex Repo will internationalize its Euro GC Pooling offering with...
People
Also, MFA members elected six new directors for a two-year term: Trey Beck, managing director, D.E. Shaw & Co. L.P.; Arthur F. Bell, managing member, Arthur F. Bell, Certified Public Accountants;...
News
With Eurex’s push to list dollar-denominated single-stock futures, we thought it would be a good time to take a look these products, which have fallen to the wayside in the United States, but are...
A jury in Chicago has decided that eSpeed Inc., eSpeed International LTD and Ecco Ware LTD violated Trading Technologies International Inc.’s (TT) patents for the static ladder and single-click order...