In America, meanwhile, the all-electronic Archipelago handles trading in stocks, exchange-traded funds and options, and plans to add corporate bonds and futures to its platform.
Stocks, bonds, futures, and even houses can experience speculative bubbles.
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Keep an extra close eye on U.S. Treasury bonds and notes futures prices, as they are a good daily gauge of the overall worldwide investor risk appetite, or lack thereof, in the market place.
Eurex coveted the Board of Trade's biggest contracts, futures on Treasury bonds, which were still rooted in its old-fashioned trading floors.
In the 1970s, the marts hit on the holy grail: financial futures, such as bonds and stock indexes.
These are often more difficult to trade, especially when part of the job requires securing and creating baskets of the actual underlying stocks, bonds, preferreds, currencies and futures.
Dealers could not find the right bonds with which to close their short futures positions.
The fund could invest in everything: municipal bonds, equities, preferred stocks, futures, options and options on futures.
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The cbot had futures on grains, Treasury bonds and the Dow stock indexes.
This involves buying and selling futures or options on shares, bonds or currencies.
In anticipation of big central-bank purchases of government bonds, traders sent benchmark Japanese government-bond futures up to a record Friday.
Futures ETFs - These funds trade commodities, stocks, Treasury bonds and currencies.
Brazil now imposes a tax of 6% on foreign purchases of its bonds, as well as a smaller tax on bets against the dollar on the futures market.
It could include a merger with NYSE Group (nyse: NYX - news - people ), whose chief executive, John Thain, has talked about wanting to expand beyond equity trading into bonds (which he has done), options (that too) and U.S. futures.
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