Commodity Futures Trading Blog

Neither side has blinked in the Louisville Orchestra labor dispute, and both the management and the musicians are facing difficult futures and the potential end of the orchestra. The management now plans to follow through on ... Read the rest of this entry »

Managed futures are not all theyre worked up to be. Learn why they are not a good option for investors. Read the rest of this entry »

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CHICAGO — Grains futures fell Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for December delivery fell 16.25 cents to $6.2825 a bushel; December corn fell 8 cents to $6.47 a bushel; December oats fell 1.75 cent to $3.3450 a bushel; while November soybeans fell 9.50 cents to $12.0750 a bushel. Beef futures fall while pork futures rise on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Read full article > > Read the rest of this entry »

Just like with Lehman, when it took 3 days for the full consequences of the bankruptcy to manifest themselves in the form of a complete freeze of money markets, so too now we are starting to see the same phenomenon ... Read the rest of this entry »

Forexpros – Natural gas futures pulled back from a six-week high on Monday, as traders turned their attention from the weekend's U.S. Northeast snowstorm to forecasts showing mild weather in the coming week which was ... Read the rest of this entry »

There was an Alternative Futures Symposium recently put on by the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) at the Army Training and Doctrine Command in Fort Eustis, Virginia. They didn't look at the threat posed by a ... Read the rest of this entry »

Forexpros – Gold futures trimmed losses on Monday, pulling back from a three-day low as some safe-haven buying re-emerged amid ongoing concerns over the debt crisis in the euro zone. On the Comex division of the New ... Read the rest of this entry »

November 11-12 will see the Futures Of Entertaintment 5event, held at MIT in Cambridge, MA. FoE tends to bring together a great mix of marketing/brand type people with some academics who bring a different perspective to ... Read the rest of this entry »

CHICAGO — Grains futures mostly fell in early trading Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for December delivery fell 9.50 cents to $6.35 a bushel; December corn fell 6 cents to $6.49 a bushel; December oats were unchanged at $3.3625 a bushel; and November soybeans fell 12 cents to $12.05 a bushel. Read full article > > Read the rest of this entry »