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What’s changed since the financial crisis and the initial launch of 3-Year Treasury Note futures in 2009?  Quite a bit for the Treasury futures complex. Treasury futures account for a much larger share of the daily risk transfer in Treasury markets ‒ having seen exponential growth in the...

In February, financial markets experienced a historic liquidation that paralleled the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Alongside the introduction of global lockdowns, brokerage account openings rose rapidly as sheltered market participants searched for ways to maintain engagement with...

The markets are historically volatile during the coronavirus pandemic, throwing conventional risk management strategies out the window.  Demand dissipated as investors and traders reduced risk into the drop.  The Financial Learning Information Platform, or iFlip, a...

A few things will go back to "normal" once the COVID-19 pandemic is under control, but somethings may not. The U.S. shale oil industry is one of them. The shale oil industry had been on the rise and it appeared there was very little that could derail it. Innovation and technology drove...

The Financial Learning Information Platform, or iFlip, a leading algorithmic intelligence wealth manager, announced Thursday the launch of its long-awaited mobile stock trading app. iFlip is an investing tool whose underlying technology and proprietary algorithms were developed by leading Wall...

CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME), a derivatives and options exchange operating in Chicago and New York, formally announced the launch of options on Bitcoin (BTC) futures Monday, delivering on the growing interest and demand for a cash-settled instrument that allows for more efficient exposure and...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga.   The final month of the year has historically been a heady time for cryptocurrency markets, and this year is looking like it will...

In an interview with Benzinga, Carolyn Boroden of the trading education site Simpler Trading discussed her story of becoming a technical analyst. Beginnings Boroden is an analyst who specializes in Fibonacci trading analysis. Her Wall Street career began at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette's...

Renewed hopes for progress in trade talks with China helped set a positive tone early Tuesday after Monday’s move higher. However, investors will have to wait to see if anything concrete lies behind this confidence.  Overseas markets appeared to share some of the optimism, as European...

Bitcoin futures debuted on the Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) futures index last week followed by a similar product on CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME), the world's largest futures exchange, on Monday. With all the fanfare surrounding the debut of futures tied to the hot digital currency...

The market is nearly evenly split on the prospect of a rate hike by the end of this year, according to the CME's FedWatch Tool. A report on CNBC citing the tool, said, "Nearly 54 percent of the market believes interest rates will remain in the current range of 25 to 50 basis points in December....

Global markets have evolved a great deal in recent decades and become increasingly complex. In a new report, Firm58 took a close look at how markets have changed and where they’re headed in coming years. Prior to 1995, a handful of markets – including the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, CBOE and...