Among them: hedge funds, untraded securities, foreign-exchange contracts, precious-metal bullion, tax liens, natural-gas wells, private mortgages and other secured debt, movie partnerships, cattle, fishing rights and even investments in bull semen.
But that will be counterbalanced by a new squeeze on liquidity: a 90-day freeze on forward foreign exchange contracts, which will leave companies scrambling for hard currency to pay their overseas suppliers.
But Minister for the Dome Lord Falconer said the dismantling scheduled up to 14 February - the deadline for Legacy to exchange contracts - is to remove rented equipment so further charges are not made.
The government's export credit agency, the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), will launch an Export Working Capital Scheme, a Bond Support Scheme, and will support banks offering foreign exchange hedging contracts to SMEs by sharing credit risk.
Energy contracts of CME Group primarily consist of crude oil, natural gas, power and other energy-related exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter contracts cleared through CME Group ClearPort.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange offers future contracts based on temperature and snowfall.
Beginning in June 2004, Mr Nagin took payments, travel and other gratuities in exchange for city contracts and other favours, prosecutors said.
And the firm recently invested in an online energy-contracts exchange and set up a site to hawk its portfolio of commercial real estate.
The duty to bargain and exclusive representation of unions means that the process of entering into these contracts is not one of voluntary exchange comparable to other voluntary business contracts.
The Arizona-based exchange will have futures contracts that are based on domestic box office receipts.
Wireless companies have long sold cellphones at discounted prices in exchange for long-term contracts.
Chase is the biggest trader of Euromark contracts at the exchange, claiming a 6-7% market share.
LIFFE, the futures exchange, has seen its busiest contracts melt away to Eurex, its cheaper Frankfurt-based rival.
Why are many derivative market participants still objecting to exchange clearing of the remaining OTC derivative contracts?
If this were done via contracts traded on a Chicago exchange, producers, consumers and speculators could dive in.
New telecoms companies will have to list on the Saudi exchange should they win mobile-phone contracts to be awarded soon.
"We are speaking to institutional traders, hedge funds and market makers in designing these contracts, " says Trade Exchange spokesman Mike Knesevitch.
If your stake in one foreign currency is large enough (close to six figures), you could trade currency contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
This summer the exchange announced it would electronically list agricultural contracts and futures from two Midwest grain exchanges, in Kansas City, Mo. and Minneapolis--which themselves have inched in a digital direction.
This summer the exchange announced it would electronically list agricultural contracts and futures from two Midwest grain exchanges, in Kansas City, Missouri and Minneapolis, Minnesota--which themselves have inched in a digital direction.
In anticipation of the new regulations, DB set up a new derivative exchange-clearing unit called Markets Clearing for listed and over-the-counter derivatives for interest rates, foreign exchange, credit, commodities and equities contracts.
Fewer than 700, 000 short-term interest-rate futures contracts traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange just six years ago.
Its shares are likely to soar even higher, now that the exchange is getting into energy and gold trading in a big way, with a 10-year agreement to trade the most popular oil, gold and other benchmark contracts of the New York Mercantile Exchange through its Globex electronic trading system.
Options volume was brisk on Thursday, with more than 4 million contracts trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission just approved two markets for the contracts, one set up by Cantor Exchange, a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, and one from a company called Media Derivatives.
Right now, for example, the bulk of the natural gas traded in the physical market (as opposed to financial contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange) is still handled by "smile and dial" phone brokers at firms such as Prebon Yamane and Amerex.
The IOF will be charged at the rate of 1% on the adjusted notional value, acquisition, sale or maturity of financial derivative contracts whose liquidation value is affected by exchange rate variations and result in increase of net short exposure in relation to the calculated end of the previous business day, within the same institution authorized to record derivative contracts.
Unlike cotton or coffee futures, wine contracts aren't sold on an organized exchange and aren't federally regulated.
Could the government increase his freedom by banning implicit contracts to perform dishwashing at given times in exchange for dinner?
Retirees sign contracts to hand over their pension payments in exchange for a highly discounted lump sum by placing them in separate bank accounts.
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