Just Thursday, as gold prices rallies strongly, so did other major raw commodity futures markets.
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Leverage in futures markets allowed them to control a huge chunk of the available world supply.
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He is looking at futures markets, too, where consolidation is sharply reducing the number of exchanges.
Precious metals traders need to pay extra close attention to the U.S. grain futures markets today.
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In particular, they supply liquidity and price information that makes futures markets more efficient.
Current futures markets suggest that house prices will decline by 12%-18% in the next 18 months.
That opens possibilities for leverage and hedging previously available only in the futures markets.
Critics in the past few years have complained that the futures markets have become too volatile.
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But MF Global has caused more paralysis than the futures markets have seen in years.
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Every barrel they buy in the futures markets they sell back again before the contract ends.
There are, of course, futures markets for energy, but liquidity dries up beyond a few years out.
That put silver in second place for the strongest commodity futures markets, beaten only by orange juice.
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Mr. VAITHEESWARAN: The report's that BP's trading arm tried to manipulate one part of the futures markets.
We have the futures markets: the future price of corn and soy and wheat has gone up.
On those futures markets where it really is speculators running amok over what they think might happen.
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Those are the kinds of things you see in the regulated futures markets which function pretty well.
Margin calls occur in the futures markets and traders are forced to abandon their already weak long positions.
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That, in turn, could eventually lead to a derivatives market, much like the futures markets in other commodities.
The U.S. futures markets handled 1.2 billion contracts last year, mostly on behalf of institutions and full-time traders.
Meanwhile, fund net length rose slightly for all of the other metals traded on New York futures markets.
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Volumes in bond, currency and futures markets jumped but soon subsided, traders said.
That news sent the U.S. dollar index solidly higher and many commodity futures markets, including gold and silver, lower.
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As such, it has never attracted the speculative interest of other commodities that are traded on world futures markets.
Indeed, plenty of big consumers of plastics, such as carmakers, already know the futures markets well, having traded metals.
With mounting losses in currency and futures markets, the attackers eventually took flight.
You stay out of leveraged futures markets that have violent ups and downs.
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The structural changes wrought by financialization may change pricing in commodity futures markets.
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Meanwhile, events in two large oil-producing countries are feeding speculation in futures markets.
The precious metals and many other raw commodity futures markets did get a boost from the China rate-cut news Thursday.
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The grain futures markets are also starting to turn around their recent bearish price trends as the new year unfolds.
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