June 16, 2019
Houston, TX—FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken today made the following opening remarks at the FIA Commodities Symposium in Houston, Texas. The following remarks are prepared for delivery:
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to FIA’s Commodities Symposium.
May 13, 2019
Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes in April 2019, Unless stated otherwise, all figures below refer to performance for April 2019 and all comparisons are with the same period last year.Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange’s markets was RUB 73.8 trln in April 2019.The growth leaders were bond (+24.3%), GCC repo (+22.2%), commodity derivatives (+18.4%) and CCP repo (+12.5%) markets.
March 14, 2019
Fresh Chinese worse-than-expected industrial production data which was the lowest output growth in 17 years weighed on Asian equities. In Japan, the Nikkei225 main index lost 0.02 percent to 21,287, and the Hang Seng benchmark in Hong Kong finished flat at 28,834. The Shanghai Composite shed 1.20 percent at 2,990, while stocks in Australia which had been under pressure for most of the afternoon, however, managed to claw back gains in the final hour of trade as the Financial sector improved. The ASX 200 closed up 18 points or 0.3% to 6,179.
March 7, 2019
Asian indices finished mostly lower today following a downbeat session in Wall Street. With trade negotiations frontier quiet, traders will turn their attention to Europe and focus on the monthly decision on interest rates by the European Central Bank and data on quarterly economic growth. Stock traders will also be following news that Chinese tech company Huawei has filed a lawsuit against the US government over the ban that restricts Fed agencies from using its products.
March 6, 2019
Asian indices finished mostly higher today following a mute session yesterday with Chinese stocks rising sharply since January, reversing much of the underperformance against other Asian indices over the last year. With trade negotiations frontier quiet, traders have to evaluate the more positive stimulus talks from China and continuing poor economic data globally to derive next trading moves.
July 30, 2018
The US Department of Justice announced that two former Deutsche Bank traders have been charged with “manipulative trading practices in the commodities markets.” The US DOJ made the announcement in …
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