"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 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.
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By Irene Frat |
October 24, 2012
It was a clearly stunned Kerviel who appeared on the French evening news tonight after the appeal court had upheld the sentence handed by the lower court.
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By Ginger Szala |
October 24, 2012
In reviewing the events around the MF Global bankruptcy, it appears everyone moved faster than the brokerage entity, which no one seemed to be protecting.
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By Susan Abbott Gidel |
October 24, 2012
“Nothing good can come of this headline,” I said to my husband on, Oct. 16, 2011, when “MF Global Told to Boost Capital” was posted to the online version of The Wall Street Journal.
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By Michael McFarlin |
October 23, 2012
Russell Wasendorf has pleaded guilty to fraud at Peregrine Financial Group and is behind bars. Now, his estate is up for sale to try and recoup some of his theft. The "Des Moines Register" got a look inside his estate.
