The Board of Trade followed suit five years later with trading in Treasury-bond futures.
In anticipation of big central-bank purchases of government bonds, traders sent benchmark Japanese government-bond futures up to a record Friday.
Presumably this isn't a problem as we can all work selling insurance policies or dealing in bond futures or some such.
Commodity futures are less vulnerable to competition than, say, bond futures, because they require a commodity to be delivered to a specified place.
More than 538 million bond futures contracts were traded in the first six months this year, up 26% from the same time frame last year.
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DTB, wrested away a key market in German government-bond futures.
If banks and investment firms can't use Treasurys and Treasury derivatives like bond futures to tame their balance sheets, their lending to the private sector will be curtailed or priced upward.
The other dinosaur den is financial options--the equivalent of the right, for example, to buy Treasury bond futures at a certain strike price--where traders hang over the railings, screaming and waving frantically.
Last September, the New York brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald teamed up with the New York Cotton Exchange to develop an electronic exchange to trade American government-bond futures, striking at the core of the Board of Trade's franchise.
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Contracts expiring beyond one-year forward saw implied yields rise by seven basis points while government bond futures expiring in September fell by one-half point to trade at 125.81 carrying a yield of 2.94% as its yield crossed back above those available on comparable treasuries.
Yet no such standards exist for the engineers who develop the automated-trading software upon which our stock, bond and futures markets depend every day.
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One very early clue that the stock market bulls are running out of steam is price action in the U.S. Treasury bond and note futures Wednesday.
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One very early clue that the stock market bulls are running out of steam is price action in the U.S. Treasury bond and note futures Wednesday morning.
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U.S. stock indexes slumped, U.S. Treasury bond and note futures prices soared and the U.S. dollar index vacillated but did back down in the wake of the jobs data.
Volumes in bond, currency and futures markets jumped but soon subsided, traders said.
" The office of a Wall Street bond dealer, unlike the warrens of futures traders, had "fancy furniture.
Even so, the potential for electronic bond trading may be less than in equities, futures and options.
Commodities futures shifted ahead of the announcement that will instill more liquidity into bond markets.
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So we have stock long-short, commodity long-short, managed futures, currency long-short, real estate hedge, and a global bond hedge.
Bill futures swooned by 11 basis points in response to the rapidly changing credit climate on Tuesday while benchmark government bond prices fell sending cash yields higher by three pips to 2.51%.
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U.S. stock futures are broadly lower heading into the open, as Wall Street frets over European dealings for a Greek bond-swap deal while Iran reiterated its threat to block the Strait of Hormuz.
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