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CBOT Board Calls Special Meeting of Members to Approve Changes to Rules for Electronic Trading of Agricultural Products 
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Jan 24 3:03 PM
The Chicago Board of Trade , one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, announced today that its Board of Directors has requested a special meeting of members to approve changes to the CBOT’s rules to eliminate the member approval requirement for electronic trading of agricultural products during the day.Save to My Web

Exchanges Gamble On Multi-Asset Trading 
Wall Street and Technology - Jan 30 7:58 PM
For-profit exchanges are expanding into multi-asset trading to make money for their shareholders. But can they pull it off with multiple matching engines?Save to My Web

CBOT Corn Review: Commercial Support Limits Fund Sales 
CattleNetwork.com - Jan 20 1:36 PM
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)–Corn futures traded at the Chicago Board of Trade ended little changed Friday in choppy trading as commercial buying offset fund selling in an otherwise featureless session, sources said.Save to My Web

CBOT, NYBOT in financial futures screen trade deal 
Crane’s Chicago Business - Jan 25 7:42 AM
(Reuters) – The Chicago Board of Trade said on Wednesday it has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to host the New York Board of Trade’s financial derivative products on CBOT’s electronic trading platform.Save to My Web

REVISED: CME Posts Sixth Consecutive Record Year as Total Volume Soars to More Than 1 Billion Contracts; Exchange  
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Jan 03 10:58 AM
CME, the world’s largest and most diverse futures exchange, posted total 2005 annual volume of 1.05 billion contracts as it achieved double-digit volume gains for the sixth consecutive year.Save to My Web

Daily Futures Spotlight 01/20/2006
eTV Futures – 25-year highs in Sugar! Not since 1981 when Ronald Reagan was in the White House, and Disco was on its way out were Sugar prices this high. The lead-month March contract traded as high as 17.25 today as commodity funds, speculators, and trade houses

CFTC, NEFE join ranks of Alliance for Investor Education
MAR – The full breadth of the investment world is represented in AIE's membership ranks. Full members of the Alliance include: American Association of Individual Investors, AFSAEF, BetterInvesting, Bond Market Association, CFA Institute, Certified

12 trillion yuan recorded in
– BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhuanet) — The trading volume on the futures market totaled 12.07 trillion yuan (1.48 trillion U.S. dollars) during the first 11 months of 2005. up 430 percent over the same period of 2004, according to official figures. The f

Business Digest
Baltimore Sun – Comparable stores sales for Giant Food dipped 0.4 percent for the fourth quarter, according to an earnings report released yesterday by its parent company Royal Ahold NV. Columbia-based U.S. Foodservice, which was the focus of an accounting scandal

Trading Shots:
Wall Street Journal – Mark Gongloff: Before Google's initial public offering in 2004, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin baptized themselves in the Church of Warren Buffett, promising to emulate the practices of his Berkshire Hathaway , including issuing two classes of

Groundnut, its oil, palmolein rates up
Deepika Global – Mumbai, Jan 14 (UNI) Groundnut, its oils and palmolein today rose on reduced stock supply, traders at the Bombay Commodity Exchange here said. Following were the spot rates of oilseeds, oil and de-oiled cakes. (all figures in rupees) as provided by

Gold in tight range as platinum hits highs
Reuters South Africa – SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Platinum prices rose to their highest in almost 26 years on Thursday, in fund-led buying and as the metal played catch-up with gold, which hit a quarter-century peak earlier this week. Gold prices kept to a tight range as buying

DJ Livestock Update: Nearby CME Cattle At New 2-Month Lows
TMCnet - 2 hours ago Nearby Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures slid to nine-week lows Monday, with fund accounts liquidating long positions as technical chart support

DJ Livestock Update: April CME Cattle Slides To 2-Mo Low
TMCnet - Jan 27, 2006 1057 EST [Dow Jones] – CME live cattle futures prices fall to two-month lows in active early trade after sell stops were triggered at sensitive chart support

CME Cattle Review: CME Cattle Hit 2-Mo Lows As Funds Sell
CattleNetwork.com, KS - Jan 27, 2006 CHICAGO (Dow Jones)–Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures slid to two-month lows Friday, with fund accounts liquidating long positions as technical

DJ Livestock Update: CME Cattle Lower On Hog Decline
TMCnet - Jan 24, 2006 1218 EST [Dow Jones] – CME live cattle futures extend their slight slide in reaction to sharply lower lean hog futures. "The hogs

DJ Livestock Update: CME Bellies Jump On Short Covering, Rpt
TMCnet - Jan 24, 2006 1043 EST [Dow Jones] – CME pork belly futures are higher on short covering, speculative hedging and Monday's bullish-construed government monthly cold storage

CME Cattle Review: CME Cattle At New 2-Mo Lows; Funds Sell
CattleNetwork.com, KS - 1 hour ago Tyson Foods did not return phone calls requesting confirmation of the changes. Meanwhile, even live cattle options were active in the CME pits.

CBOT 2005 Volume Surpasses 674 Million Contracts and Marks Fourth Consecutive Year of Growth 
Grainnet.com - Jan 03 9:47 AM
CHICAGO, IL-The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced Jan. 3 the Exchange achieved the highest yearly total volume recorded in its history, with more than 674 million contracts traded in 2005.Save to My Web

Futures Closing Bell 01/25/2006
eTV Futures – Crude futures shot down on bearish products inventory report: It was a mixed bag for energy traders today, as the weekly energy stocks report caught most traders and analysts by surprise. The EIA reported a surprising drop in Crude Oil stocks of 2.3

Financal resources on markets
Belleville News-Democrat – The World Wide Web offers a useful way to keep track of major stock and commodity market action, and perhaps pick up some useful insights on investing. Various markets contain a wealth of information, from equities to commodity listings, and more

Stock futures optimistic before GM, durable goods 
Market Watch - Jan 26 3:29 AM
LONDON (MarketWatch) – U.S. stock market futures were pointing higher on Thursday, with overseas results from Sony Corp. and Siemens AG offering support ahead of another wave of U.S. earnings as well as durable goods orders data.Save to My Web

Australian bonds end slightly weaker 
Sydney Morning Herald - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
The Australian bond market ended marginally weaker on Friday, unable to recover after reacting to a recent US Treasury sell-off.Save to My Web

KLIBOR Futures End Flat 
Bernama - Jan 27 3:07 AM
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 (Bernama) — The three-month Kuala Lumpur Interbank Offered Rates (KLIBOR) futures contracts on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives ended flat Friday despite the stronger cash market.Save to My Web

MARKET WATCH Energy futures prices mixed 
Oil & Gas Journal - Jan 27 10:11 AM
HOUSTON, Jan. 27 — Energy futures prices were mixed Jan. 26 as crude rose after 3 consecutive days of declines and natural gas briefly fell below $8/MMbtu for the first time since July.Save to My Web

KLCI Futures Higher At Close 
Bernama - Jan 26 3:37 AM
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Bernama) — The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) futures contracts on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives were higher at close Thursday in line with the stronger cash market, dealers said.Save to My Web

KLIBOR Futures Untraded At Midday 
Bernama - Jan 26 9:06 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 (Bernama) — The three-month Kuala Lumpur Interbank Offered Rates (KLIBOR) futures contracts on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives were untraded at midday, dealers said.Save to My Web

KLIBOR Futures Likely To Be Higher Next Week 
Bernama - Jan 27 8:52 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 (Bernama) — The three-month Kuala Lumpur Interbank Offered Rates (KLIBOR) futures contracts on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives are expected to be higher amidst a stronger cash market, dealers said.Save to My Web

U.S. Stock-Index Futures Gain as AT&T, Lockheed Martin Advance 
Bloomberg.com - Jan 26 6:30 AM
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stock-index futures gained as companies including AT&T Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Caterpillar Inc. reported results that exceeded analysts’ estimates, helping to alleviate concern about recent shortfalls.Save to My Web

Stock futures gain as data, Caterpillar offset GM 
Market Watch - Jan 26 6:14 AM
LONDON (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock market futures were pointing higher on Thursday, as strong durable goods data and results from Caterpillar helped offset a much wider-than-expected loss from General Motors.Save to My Web

Daily Futures Spotlight 01/20/2006
eTV Futures – 25-year highs in Sugar! Not since 1981 when Ronald Reagan was in the White House, and Disco was on its way out were Sugar prices this high. The lead-month March contract traded as high as 17.25 today as commodity funds, speculators, and trade houses

Exotic currencies bear fruit in otherwise barren landscape
Financial Times, UK - Jan 25, 2006 Only one of the four portfolios – yield – which involves buying higher-yielding currencies and shorting lower-yielding ones, made money last year, returning

Currencies: Rate outlook helps dollar and euro rise against yen
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 26, 2006 NEW YORK The yen fell on Wednesday against other major currencies amid expectations that Japan's interest-rate gap with the United States and Europe would widen

Currencies: Strong US data underpin dollar
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 27, 2006 NEW YORK The dollar rose against the euro on Friday on expectations that the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates after a measure of inflation

SBV removes licence requirement on currency
VietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - Jan 27, 2006 The SBV on January 25 released Dispatch 497 announcing that individuals no longer need permission to bring large amounts of foreign currencies abroad.

UPDATE 1-Canada Tories don't see currencies as policy tool
Reuters - Jan 24, 2006 companies complain they have been hit hard by a steep appreciation in the Canadian dollar, which is up 30 percent against other major currencies since 2002

Currencies: Fears over US prices give a lift to the dollar
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 25, 2006 NEW YORK The dollar rose against the euro on Tuesday as Mark Olson, a Federal Reserve governor, said US policy makers were watching "very carefully" for signs

CURRENCIES: Dollar Edges Lower On Strength In Overseas Data
Business Online, UK - Jan 25, 2006 By Leslie Wines. NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The US dollar lost strength against the euro in the early going Wednesday, after the German

OnlineFX can Provide a Fully Co-Branded, Multi-Currency
PR Web (press release), WA - 18 hours ago For websites that involves customers having to deal in alternate currencies then OnlineFX have developed a unique tool that simultaneously calculates the

South African rand weaker against major currencies
Xinhua, China - Jan 24, 2006 24 (Xinhuanet) — The South African rand was weaker against major currencies in late afternoon trade on Tuesday after stop losses were triggered through the

Circulation of forged currencies on rise
Newindpress, India - Jan 24, 2006 One of the Rs 1,000 currencies he handed over to the cashier was a counterfeit. The KSEB office here also had refused to accept

CME Cattle Review: Live Cattle Lower; Commodities Decline 
CattleNetwork.com - Jan 18 2:21 PM
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)–A global decline in most commodity prices was at least partially responsible for lower Chicago Mercantile Exchange live- and feeder-cattle futures prices Wednesday.Save to My Web

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SYS-CON Media - Jan 26 8:33 AM
On Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 5pm EST, BiometOrthopedics, Inc., (NASDAQ: BMET) and the Texas Center for JointReplacement present Roger H. Emerson, Jr., MD, performing theMicroplasty ASI (Anterior Supine Intermuscular) Hip Procedure fromPresbyterian Hospital of Plano.Save to My Web

CBOT traders had record longs in 10-yr notes -CFTC
Reuters - 6 hours ago The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said large speculators such as hedge funds had a net long in CBOT 10-year notes of 163,267 contracts as of Tuesday, up

CFTC member says no fund investigation underway
Reuters - Jan 26, 2006 HOUSTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) The US Commodities Futures Trading Commission in not conducting a formal investigation of speculative funds in the oil futures markets

Futures Closing Bell 01/26/2006
eTV Futures, NY - Jan 26, 2006 March Soybeans closed at 573.00, up 6 cents. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.

Russia's RTS plans to launch weather futures trading
PRIME-TASS (subscription), Russia - Jan 19, 2006 MOSCOW, Jan 19 (Prime-Tass) — While all over Russia temperatures fall below minus 25 degrees Centigrade Russia's RTS Stock Exchange has started preparing to

Soybean oil futures trading starts
China Daily, China - Jan 9, 2006 China launched soybean oil futures trading at Dalian Commodities Exchange in the northeastern Liaoning Province Monday morning.

The main street of futures trading
Ventura County Star (subscription), CA - Jan 13, 2006 The minimum deposit for initiating trades is $100. HedgeStreet is subject to the oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Punjab turning into commodity derivatives hub
Sify, India - Jan 24, 2006 Kochi: Punjab is progressing from being the wheat bowl of the country to the commodity futures trading hub. Some commodity futures

ICE Futures Receives Go Ahead on WTI Crude Futures From Regulator
Yahoo! News (press release) - 13 hours ago ICE conducts its markets for futures trading through its regulated subsidiary, ICE Futures (formerly the International Petroleum Exchange, or IPE), which is

Soybean oil futures trading launched at Dalian Exchange
Xinhua, China - Jan 9, 2006 DALIAN, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) — China launched soybean oil futures trading at Dalian Commodities Exchange in the northeastern Liaoning Province Monday morning.