Learn about futures trading, along with how contracts work, key market factors, risks, and potential benefits, and how investors use futures to hedge or speculate.

Gold is one of the world’s oldest and most precious metals. It’s what we award athletes who finish first, it’s designed into the jewellery we give loved ones, and some cultures have even gone so far ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is proposing to expand agricultural futures trading hours to a 24/7 schedule. CFTC says the change would make the market more vibrant, while brokers and ...

Agricultural commodities feed and increasingly fuel the world. The U.S. Department of Agriculture covers this broad group of commodity market sectors in its monthly World Agricultural Supply and ...

The ways in which commodities and financial assets are traded is being restructured due to technological advances. As of 2025, however, the South African region still relies heavily on commodity ...

A defining feature of CMCITR is its greater allocation to industrial metals and reduced allocation to precious metals ...

Polymarket’s decentralized forecasting has caught Wall Street’s eye. The New York Stock Exchange’s parent, Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), made a headline-grabbing US$2 billion investment last ...

Canada's forex market operates within a framework dominated by commodity price relationships and close economic ties with the United States. The Canadian dollar's behavior reflects the country's ...

Stock market holiday: BSE and NSE have announced a trading holiday on Thursday. Thus, investors must note that the Indian ...