Letter from the Co-CEO: The Urgent Need to Declutter to Remain Sane by Lynette Lim
Watch CME Group Senior Economist, Erik Norland as he explains how silver outperformed gold to narrow their extreme price gap in the summer of 2020, amid the Fed’s massive quantitative easing.
ICE plans to launch IFAD and trading in ICE Murban Crude Oil Futures on March 29, 2021, subject to the completion of regulatory approvals.
For the last 40 centuries, going all the way back to the Babylonians, human beings have marked the start of a new year by resolving to something.* Were they promising to lose weight by buying themselves Peloton bikes and subscriptions to Imperfect Foods? Probably not.
SGX Iron Ore Futures closed 2020 at a record 2.1 billion tonnes of trade which was 30% larger than the underlying physical market. In a year of unprecedented global events, iron ore was one of the best performing of the major commodities having started the year at just over $90/MT and closing the year at nearly $160/MT, a gain of over 70% [in comparison, Gold is up 24%, Copper is up 18% and Oil is down 22%].
Since the world’s first exchange-traded futures on Hang Seng TECH Index (HSTECH) were launched at HKEX last year, the CFTC-certified futures contracts have been providing global investors with an essential tool for building and hedging portfolios of China’s technology stocks.
Trading in Cboe® iBoxx® iShares® $ High Yield Corporate Bond Index (Ticker: IBHY) futures set a new daily volume record on Monday, December 28, with a reported 4,451 contracts traded, representing more than $648 million in notional value.