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Chief economist update: Easing restrictions narrow oil demand-supply equation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... practically paying buyers to come and take their stocks off them. This was on April 20, one day before the WTI oil futures contracts for May delivery dropped to minus US$36.98 per barrel. The price of Brent oil remained positive but still plummeted to ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... compressed," Innes argues. "Super funds also have the ability to hedge out the embedded duration risk using liquid futures contracts if they so desire, which means that they will only be exposed to wide credit spreads (and not already-low government ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the world's largest financial derivatives exchange added Bitcoin futures contracts in December 2017." While the SEC has blocked applications to launch Crypto ETFs in the US, one of the largest cryptocurrency ...

Aussie ETF investors got oil bets wrong before crash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... stabilise after the recent OPEC deal to cut down production by 30% in the wake of an oversupply. On Monday, May WTI futures contracts slipped into negative territory for the first time, as COVID-19 shutdowns continue to bog down demand and traders run ...

Oil tanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... annum to take out a mortgage. Sweet! And that was pre-coronavirus time. This time it's all about oil. US oil futures contracts expiring on 21 April for May delivery dropped to minus US$35.20 a barrel - i.e. oil producers are paying buyers to come and ...

Major US exchange to stop listing bitcoin

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
The US cryptocurrency exchange that released the first bitcoin futures contracts has had a change of heart. Cboe Global Markets will not list any new bitcoin futures for the first time since launching them in 2017. However, it did not rule out the possibility ...

SSGA boosts SPDR distribution team

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... offer leveraged or inverse ETFs anywhere around the globe, nor any ETFs that are predominantly comprised of futures contracts or derivatives. But we do have significant education available on all those points."

Investor education key to healthy ETF market: SPDR

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... offer leveraged or inverse ETFs anywhere around the globe, nor any ETFs that are predominantly comprised of futures contracts or derivatives. But we do have significant education available on all those points." S&P Dow Jones Indices chair David Blitzer ...

ASX flags imminent blockchain transition

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... derivatives trading activity. "The daily average cash on-market value was $4.3 billion and the daily average number of futures contracts traded was more than 556,300," Stevens said.

Goldman Sachs fined $120m for rate rigging

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... CFTC's order, Goldman Sachs "executed transactions in interest rate swap spreads, US Treasuries, and Eurodollar futures contracts in a manner deliberately designed - in timing, price, and other respects-to influence the published USD ISDAFIX in order ...