Ninety percent of U.S. Treasury futures volume is now electronic, as is 60% of the exchange's overall volume.
Some of those same customers are challenging cme's monopoly by forming a new exchange that will list Treasury futures.
In 1998 the institution's board voted to allow its biggest volume-getter, 30-year U.S. Treasury futures, to trade electronically alongside open outcry.
U.S. 10-Year Treasury note futures prices this week hit a fresh contract high, with the cash 10-year Treasury note hitting a new low yield near 1.68%.
Each day Lavender, 57, wears the same purple jacket with red lapels to help clients pick him out of the crowd as he trades contracts for ten-year Treasury note futures.
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.
June treasury note futures nevertheless reversed gains to a session high point at 122-25 to trade at a minor loss on the day trimming a fall in the yield to a minor rise to 3.18%.
The Board of Trade followed suit five years later with trading in Treasury-bond futures.
Implied yields declined by increasing amounts along the Eurodollar curve while the September treasury-note futures contract was lower by 12-ticks following his remarks and partially in response to a calmer session for European government bonds.
Eurex coveted the Board of Trade's biggest contracts, futures on Treasury bonds, which were still rooted in its old-fashioned trading floors.
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.
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.
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.
The cbot had futures on grains, Treasury bonds and the Dow stock indexes.
The headline will be announced at the allotted time, and for a few moments U.S. equity futures and U.S. treasury yields will whip about in a frenzy.
The index is 76% weighted to a long position in futures contracts on two-year Treasury yields and 24% weighted to a short position in 10-year Treasury yields.
The Managed Futures Association (MFA) sent a letter to Treasury with its suggested fixes to these proposed regulations.
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Futures ETFs - These funds trade commodities, stocks, Treasury bonds and currencies.
Last year, as the subprime market began its collapse, the President's Working Group, which includes the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the SEC and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, recommended against tighter oversight of the over-the-counter market, in the context of vetoing tighter regulation of hedge funds, saying the industry can self-police.
Stock futures were down, while the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was flat, at 2.91%.
The complaints have gotten a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have just gotten a proposal by the Treasury Department for a sweeping overhaul of financial market regulation, including the merger of the SEC with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the reassignment of many of the SEC's enforcement duties to the stock exchanges and other self-regulatory agencies.
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