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Benzinga is highlighting nominees for the fifth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards ahead of the event Nov. 19 in New York City. One nominee is dxFeed, a market data analytics firm. Background Launched in 2016, the German Devexperts subsidiary delivers market data and services to buy- and...

After bottoming out to new lows several times between October and November, 10-year treasury note and 30-year treasury bond futures have jumped to months-long highs on the run-up to the final meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. In the closing days of November, one-month contracts on 10-...

After giving up all of its year-to-date gains and entering a correction for the second time in 2018 (the first drop being February’s dramatic correction), S&P 500 futures traders are trying to make up any lost ground that they can in the final few weeks of 2018. The broad market index is...

In what has been the most precipitous drop the commodity has seen since July/August of 2015, futures contracts for both Brent crude and the US-benchmarked WTI crude oil are back down to trading below 52-week lows. After falling more than 30 percent in less than two months, investors are looking for...

After briefly bouncing back above the $9 level early in November on hopes that trade negotiations with China were progressing, 3-month soybean contracts are again struggling to even sustain themselves above $8.50. While the indeterminate status of a trade deal with the world’s largest...

The basic premise of bonds is simple: long-term yields have an inverse relationship to interest rates. And while interest rate futures add an extra dimension of a contract dictating when and at what price a bond will be sold at, the premise remains the same: the price a maturing asset with a fixed...

In the midst of the shake-up in equity markets, the apotheosis of the U.S. midterms elections, and further mixed signals on U.S.-China trade negotiations, a major development in global economics flew under the radar for most investors. While it might not rock the global economy to its core, the...

Metals futures markets across the board have pretty much been kneecapped in the back half of 2018, and signs of a reversal in trend are scarce. While none of the metals looks especially poised to surprise investors in the near-term, a strong case could be made that silver and copper have typified...

Thanks to the volatility in the equity and bond markets, the U.S. dollar is back up near new annual highs. But is this strength a warning sign for the soft commodities depressed under a bloated dollar? Or is it a signal to keep an eye on cocoa, coffee or sugar to await a USD reversal? For their...

Just in time for Halloween, livestock is back from the dead! Before you go checking your freezer for farm noises, we’re talking about lean hog futures, December contracts for which have climbed 10 percent in the course of a couple weeks to $58 near the end of October. Much of the increased...

The equities markets in October is turning into a proving ground of sorts for U.S. monetary policy. The Federal Reserve seems keen to maintain it’s hawkish stance on nipping any sign of inflation in the bud, forecasting one more rate hike for 2018 and bringing the total increases in 2018 to...

Wall Street’s latest case of the yips finally injected some much needed life into precious metal futures. Gold, silver and platinum have floundered near 52-week lows or worse in the midst of a seemingly unassailable U.S. Dollar and generally stable commodity prices. In the midst of falling...

Among the economic headlines for investors heading into Q4 is the drop in government bond prices and the corollary increase of treasury yields to new recent highs. Spurred by the Fed’s first ever September interest rate hike, as well as indications of another increase before the year is out,...

Given the length of the current bull market and the outperformance of stocks over the last nine years, it’s not out of the realm of possibility to suspect that many newer traders don’t have much exposure to the fixed income markets. Those with only a passing familiarity with how bond...

The futures market is one of the main arteries of Wall Street. While stocks may generate most of the headlines (including on this website), many traders actually prefer trading futures because of the added flexibility the market provides. Futures contracts represent a legally binding agreement to...