Explore futures contracts, standardized agreements for trading commodities or assets at set prices on future dates—vital for ...

AT A GLANCE · Six new contracts offer futures market participants access to tools tracking some of the most popular S&P and Nasdaq sector indices, including semiconductors and bi ...

Two farmers take identical corn futures positions, collect identical Social Security checks, and then one of them loses ...

As index investing continues to expand, currency hedging has become an increasingly important component of portfolio management. For investors with global exposures, currency movements can materially ...

Fixed income markets are undergoing a structural shift as institutional investors increasingly use exchange-traded SOFR ...

Fastmarkets recently partnered with CME Group for the “Hedging Lumber Risk” webinar, where our experts explored the changing dynamics of the North American lumber market and the role of the new CME ...

Based on indices provided by Vaisala Xweather, the new futures will track and settle against independent datasets that model projected wind power output at designated locations. The new contracts add ...

Event contracts are futures contracts that allow traders to bet on the likelihood of specific events, like political ...

NCDEX launched RAINCHNNAI, a futures contract allowing market participants to hedge Chennai’s Northeast Monsoon risks.

Positions on Australia’s three-year bond futures have risen toward an all-time high as the nation’s growing debt pile fuels demand for hedging.