US Home Price Securities - Getting Closer To Launch

MarketWatch is reporting that MacroShares Housing Depositor LLC today filed an amended prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to ... expressed herein are those of the author, and no statement should be as an offer to buy or sell any futures contract, or security or option or other derivative instrument. Trading of all such futures [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 14:41:58

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Over-dependence on derivatives hit AIG

The US financial tsunami has washed out giant investment banks of the US and has led to many commercial banks being bought over or nationalised ... to speculate on the future price of commodities or shares - without buying the underlying investment ... , the inaccuracy of which may not be exposed for many years. Derivatives like futures, options and [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 10:29:14

Who is Behind the Financial Meltdown? by Michel Chossudovsky

on current Dandelion Salad by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, October 11, ... . There are several instruments including futures, options, index funds, derivative securities, etc. used ... Stearns was in part due to short selling. Short selling has also been used extensively in currency [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 01:47:33

The Woman Who Could Have Prevented This Financial Mess Was Silenced by Greenspan, Rubin and Summers

By Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com. Posted October 11, 2008 ... of, Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — a federal agency that regulates options and futures trading — was the oracle whose warnings about the dangerous boom in derivatives [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 15:13:00

Seven Scandalous Financial Bugaboos

…that you may not have heard of. The big news this year was about the CDO (collateralized debt obligation), MBS ( ... not bonds, they’re derivatives… and the only thing “mini” is the value when you consider that many ... out in cash, which, to be honest, is how 99% of us deal with our options and futures in practice - seriously [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 17:59:21

OTC Derivative Growth Since 1998

As the world financial markets head into complete meltdown, it is worth taking a moment to look back to see where much of this began ... are meant to monetize risk of default. Futures contracts, options, swaps, and many others allow one party ... for interest rate contracts, commodity contracts, and credit default swaps. Though commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 20:14:31

Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion

Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion December 7th, ... platform where traders can deal in stocks, options, futures, commodities and corporate bonds across two ... in an advance release of its Monday edition. Trading would based in New York, while derivatives would remain [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 20:51:02

International Forecaster December 2008 (#6) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More

By: Bob Chapman Sunday, 21 December 2008 US MARKETS When, in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse, ... derivatives market with the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, an opaque market, which ... destroying it. They were drawing out huge salaries, stock options, bonuses, golden parachutes, fees [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 17:31:27

Satyam Removed form FNO

NSE has decided to remove Satyam Computers from equity derivatives segment ... , 2009 and March 26, 2009 will expire on January 29, 2009. Accordingly, no futures and options [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 07:29:33

S&P/Case-Shiller Certificate Issued.... In Germany

The German exchanges Xetra and EUWAX have listed a security called "Open End Index Certificate on the S& ... be as an offer to buy or sell any futures contract, or security or option or other derivative instrument. Trading of all such futures, securities, options and other derivative instruments entails significant risk [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 19:24:29

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