By HKEX

Summary: With the launch of the Shanghai Connect in November 2014 and the Shenzhen Connect in December 2016, the Mainland-Hong Kong Mutual Market was born .Today, the mutual market platform is limited to secondary equity market trading and both Chinese and international investors are barred from the primary equity market on the other side. Depriving investors of investment opportunities from initial public offers (IPO) across the border and hinders the pooling of liquidity in the Mutual Market to support its function in fund raising.

By Osaka Exchange - JPX

It is one year since TSE Mothers Index Futures (TSE Mothers Futures) were introduced in July 2016. TSE Mothers Futures were launched along with the launch of OSE’s New J-GATE trading platform. Recently due to an ever increasing interest from both domestic and international users, the trading volume of TSE Mothers Futures is steadily increasing and marked new record highs.

TSE Mothers Futures trading volume

By DGCX

Dubai, 19 August 2017: The Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) and Ayedh Dejem Group, a conglomerate from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, have agreed to develop and launch the Middle East’s first-ever Sharia compliant Spot Gold contract to be traded on an international exchange. The partnership enables both entities to increase their presence in the Saudi Arabian and wider GCC Islamic Finance market, and attract the interest of regional Islamic financial institutions and banks.

By CME Group

Our latest whitepaper analyzes the performance of Classic Bond futures during the first two-and-a-half-year period of its jump across the 5-year gap on the Treasury bond curve.

By Filippo Lecchini

Budget and Debt Ceiling

The US federal government’s fiscal year starts on October 1st and ends on September 30th. Every year the government needs a budget where tax revenues and expenses are named and properly addressed.

By Lynette Lim

BSE SENSEX August 2017

FTSE China A50 August 2017

Nikkei 225 August 2017

By HKEX