"Buy The Rumor Sell The Fact" may be a mouthful, but it's the credo that traders live by. Keep a watch here for regular updates from Futures' editors, who provide insights, insider news, and tidbits of information on the derivatives business and people who make it happen.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
November 28, 2012
The CFTC recently filed an action against Intrade, the Ireland based election market that creates binary option contracts on election results
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By Daniel P. Collins |
November 27, 2012
Warren Buffett is at it again. In a new op-ed piece in the New York Times, Buffett once again encourages raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans. If he keeps this up they may kick him out of the club.
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By Ginger Szala |
November 26, 2012
It’s possible that for many readers, Futures has spent too much time focusing on what happened with MF Global and PFG and how their deceitful use of customer segregated funds has stained the futures industry.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
November 16, 2012
An interesting thing has happened with regard to the looming fiscal cliff since the Nov. 6 presidential election results. You hear Democratic pundits downplay its importance and suggest it may not be such a bad thing
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By Michael McFarlin |
November 15, 2012
The Legatum Institute recently released the 2012 edition of their Prosperity Index for the world's nations. Check out where the U.S. sits based on these eight indicators.
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By Phil Flynn |
November 9, 2012
As we head towards the fiscal cliff and the markets from gold to bonds to stocks to oil start to price in a recession, the question becomes, just whose recession is it anyway?
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By Michael McFarlin |
November 1, 2012
A number of analysts have tried to paint a silver lining around Hurricane Sandy by toting the increased spending that will result from the clean-up. On its face, it seems a fair enough statement, but is it?
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By Terrence A. Duffy |
October 30, 2012
For more than 160 years, no customer had ever lost a penny as the result of default by a futures industry clearing member. MF Global’s failure last October, followed by fraud at PFGBest nine months later, shattered this uninterrupted legacy of trust
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By Daniel P. Collins |
October 29, 2012
The end-of-the-world scenario supposedly foretold by the Mayans has been somewhat of a running joke by many, but with things like this sometimes the best advice is not to tempt fate.
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
October 26, 2012
The ultimate fall-out from MF Global is yet to be seen. Maybe it will fade into a distant memory, an aberration that rarely occurs. Or, it could loom large.
