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Singapore and India exchanges end dispute over derivatives; CME, Nasdaq to Launch Water Futures Contract
Singapore and India exchanges end dispute over derivatives; CME, Nasdaq to Launch Water Futures Contract
Billions Rotate Through Giant Tech ETF Thanks to Options Boom; Short Sellers Are Rushing Back Into Stocks as Volatility Returns
Billions Rotate Through Giant Tech ETF Thanks to Options Boom; Short Sellers Are Rushing Back Into Stocks as Volatility Returns
Oil Crash Crushes Individual Investors, Prompts Trading Overhaul; How Wall Street internships are going virtual
Oil Crash Crushes Individual Investors, Prompts Trading Overhaul; How Wall Street internships are going virtual
Traders Position For Lower Volatility; Stock Valuations Are ‘Frightening’
Traders Position For Lower Volatility; Stock Valuations Are ‘Frightening’
Will quadruple witching mark the start of a rocky stretch for U.S. stocks? Wall Street Rewrites Market Playbooks for Pandemic’s Second Wave
Will quadruple witching mark the start of a rocky stretch for U.S. stocks? Wall Street Rewrites Market Playbooks for Pandemic’s Second Wave
Hedge funds braced for second stock market plunge; Airlines Lose Billions of Dollars in the Oil-Market Casino
Lead Stories Hedge funds braced for second stock market plunge Laurence Fletcher - Financial Times Hedge funds are getting ready for another slump in stock markets after growing uneasy that surging prices do not reflect the economic problems...
Cboe adds real-time trade alerts and data with latest acquisition; Someone Just Made a Big Bullish Options Bet on a Singapore ETF
Observations & Insight ****JJL: Ed Tilly and his team at Cboe Global Markets have done it again, buying one of the leading data firms in the markets, Henry Schwartz's Trade Alert LLC, which happens to be a sponsor of JLN. They are starting...
The Spread: Moving Out, Moving Back In
This week on The Spread – the CME Group announces new options products, MSCI moves from Singapore to Hong Kong, and more.
The 20 Minutes That Broke the U.S. Oil Market; Coronavirus pandemic will cause global famines of ‘biblical proportions,’ UN warns
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian & JLN Staff Today's first story in Leads is a must read: "The 20 Minutes That Broke the U.S. Oil Market." One of the issues that contributed to the negative prices was the breakdown of the trade...
SEC Decision on 4 p.m. Closing Trades Deals Blow to NYSE, Nasdaq; The new kings of the bond market
First Read Cboe Wraps Up Tech Migration, Expands in Products and in Europe Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News With its multi year technology migration finally wrapped up, Cboe Global Markets is returning its focus in 2020 to the expansion of...
SOFR Options Debut; A War With Iran Would Make Markets Crazy
Lead Stories SOFR Options Debut; First Trades Anticipate Higher Volatility Elizabeth Stanton - Bloomberg Options on SOFR futures became available for trading Monday, and 10 contracts changed hands -- five lots of a straddle, in which a put and...
Nasdaq Prevails in Lawsuit Over Alleged ETF Theft; Fed Confronts Lack of Diversity in Its Ranks
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff The Association of Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), Futures Industry Association (FIA), International Capital Market Association (ICMA), International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and...
The CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 4: Evolving With the Market
Why did Scott Freeman go from being a managing partner at a quantitative hedge fund to starting a company for digital asset trading and advisory services? Scott answers this and other fascinating questions about pivoting into institutional crypto trading, navigating through the regulatory nuances between different markets around the world, and more.
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Dead Chickens, Frozen Oranges Confront Farmers in South After Severe Cold
First Read $29,826/$300,000 (9.9%) Charles Bohm ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The CME set new record volumes in the Ultra 10-Year Note and 30-Year Bond futures on February 23. Ultra 10-Year Note futures reached a record volume of 1.7 million...
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GameStop shares on track to triple for week as options trading spikes; GameStop short-sellers have lost $1.9 billion in just 2 days amid the stock’s latest spike
GameStop shares on track to triple for week as options trading spikes; GameStop short-sellers have lost $1.9 billion in just 2 days amid the stock’s latest spike
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