A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a stock or index at a fixed price on a future date. While, Options give you a right, but not an obligation, to buy or sell at a fixed price.

This article was written by Jim Wiederhold, Commodity Indices Product Manager at Bloomberg. Although gold is the largest single commodity futures contract, crude oil reaches the 15% single commodity ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commodity ‌Futures Trading Commission will ‌draft new regulations governing the burgeoning market for so-called event contracts, removing obstacles for ...

SINGAPORE, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The Singapore Mercantile Exchange is planning to launch new commodity contracts in early 2012, including base metals and pepper, its chief executive said on Tuesday, as ...

BEIJING, Feb 25 (Reuters) - China's Dalian Commodity Exchange said on Friday that it would raise intraday transaction fees for some contracts of soybean, soyoil, palm oil, coking coal and coke futures ...