Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

The commission is concerned that Deutsche Börse and Nasdaq may have agreed not to compete in the listing, trading and ...

Persuaded that lax regulation of financial derivatives contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers in Congress and the Obama Administration have adopted a knee-jerk solution: regulate ...

The commission said it was looking into whether they allocated demand, coordinated prices and shared commercially sensitive ...

29 September 2008 Despite their unpredictable nature, financial markets have become one of the most dynamic and popular investment arenas in the world today. The Economist, in "Mapping the Markets", ...

Financial derivatives are financial instruments that are linked to a specific financial instrument or indicator or commodity, and through which specific financial risks can be traded in financial ...

Financial instruments are becoming increasingly complicated, and a new survey of CPA financial executives by the AICPA found concern about the valuation of instruments such as derivatives, with fears ...

The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation against German and US stock markets Deutsche Börse and Nasdaq ...

Derivatives, as the name implies, are financial contracts which call for money to change hands at some point in the future, with the amount to be determined by reference to other items, such as share ...

If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer? But the truth ...

Demanding Diversity Through Uniformity“Derivatives” have gone from being the hottest thing on Wall Street to being the hottest thing in Washington. Indeed, President Obama -- who mentioned them no ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...