Explore the origins of options contracts, from rice traders in ancient times to today's financial markets. Understand their ...

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.

ICE’s Futures and Options Markets Reach Record Open Interest of 114 Million ContractsThe Associated PressATLANTA & NEW YORK & LONDON & AMSTERDAM ATLANTA & NEW YORK & LONDON & AMSTERDAM–(BUSINESS WIRE) ...

Derivative trading has become a major part of the stock market, with investors using it not only for profits but also for hedging risks. In India, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock ...

CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) is planning to roll out options contracts on Solana (SOL-USD) and XRP (XRP-USD) futures, building on "the significant growth and increasing liquidity we have seen across our ...

U.S. stock futures slipped on Friday as a key central bank tightened policy and as key options contracts expire. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 75 points, or 0.1%, to 46441. S&P 500 futures ...

In the ten years since its launch, the Ultra 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures contract has transformed into a primary ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that open interest (OI) in its deeply liquid interest rate futures reached an all-time ...

With bitcoin BTC $95,381.69 trading in a relatively narrow range of $80,000 to $95,000 since November, options have emerged as the largest segment of the derivatives complex in a sign of the maturing ...