Such territoriality might actually be understandable as past regulatory oversight typically focused on either the physical markets or derivatives.
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Tully sees a buying opportunity, particularly for those with medium and longer-term time frames, given the slow but steady response from physical markets.
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Because grain could be standardized, its values could be abstracted to finance, forming the basis of the futures market which fairly quickly outgrew the value of the physical markets.
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Both decisions reinforce trends that have been changing Wall Street in recent years: the switch from physical to electronic markets and the dispersal of operations away from lower Manhattan into the suburban areas of the greater New York metropolis and beyond.
Investec Securities said, however, that, while lower prices could trigger stronger physical demand from jewelry markets, this market is likely to pick up only around June or July as seasonal restocking takes place, driven initially from India.
Countering the bearish view on gold in futures and ETF markets is the physical buying interest, several market watchers said.
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While there may be decoupling in the physical, commerce and consumer markets, there is no decoupling in the financial markets.
The week that is about to conclude has once again been defined by the ebb and flow (more the former rather than the latter) of Fedspectations and by the absence of decent physical gold demand from key markets.
And a final benchmark price stems from a complex summation of interlinked spot, physical forwards, futures, options, and derivatives markets, which means the paper market is almost as important as the physical one.
Physical gold demand remains subdued in key markets and all eyes remain on India.
That is keeping Asian markets quiet and is also keeping physical demand for gold coming out of Asia on the light side.
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In addition to keeping distribution costs for the company relatively low in large markets, this model makes it possible to open sales channels in small to mid-sized markets where the costs of opening and running physical stores may not be economically justified.
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When physical demand can not be met in the primary futures markets, even as there are massive naked shorts in the futures markets, I believe the probability that a major derivatives failure in the gold market is afoot or in the process of transpiring.
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Markets are increasingly going electronic, minimizing the need for physical trading floors and, in some cases, actual human traders.
Like a physical experiment, every entrepreneurial venture embodies and tests a hypothesis about products or markets.
While physical demand was firm, exchange-traded funds saw hefty outflows and futures and option markets participants had low net-long positions on the Comex exchange.
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The Smart Grid resists attacks on both the physical infrastructure (substations, poles, transformers, etc.) and the cyber-structure (markets, systems, software, communications).
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On the Aereo side, it is clear that the company will expand its physical footprint (it is currently only available in New York but looks to expand to 26 other markets this year).
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