Blogs

Ridgedale Advisors launches in Rye Brook, NY

By Press Release  | September 29, 2017

Ridgedale Advisors LP, an investment firm specializing in the convergent/divergent investment approach, has opened its primary office in Rye Brook, New York. Ridgedale is accepting clients into its flagship Multi-Strategy Program (MSP), as well as its Multi-Source Active Commodity Alternative Index (RMAC).

CBOE launches S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrat Target Income Index

By Press Release  | September 26, 2017

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (BATS: CBOE | NASDAQ: CBOE) today announced it has launched the CBOE S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income Index (SPAI), a benchmark index designed to track the hypothetical performance of a partial buy-write strategy applied to stocks contained in the widely utilized S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, to target a specific level of total income.

SGX hits record volumes in FX futures

By Press Release | September 26, 2017

Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced a daily volume record for its SGX INR/USD futures contract, with a total of 108,417 contracts traded on 22 September 2017, translating to a notional value of USD $3.34 billion.

Eris Exchange receives US patent for swap futures product design

By Press Release  | September 6, 2017

Eris Exchange (Eris), a U.S.-based futures exchange group that offers swap futures as a capital-efficient alternative to traditional over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate swaps, today announced that it has been awarded a patent on the principal component of its product design, the Eris Methodology, by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

August 2017 grain market comments

By Press Release  | September 5, 2017

The dominant feature for the agricultural markets this month was northern hemisphere production. Particularly important were the U.S. corn and soybean crops and the Russian wheat crop. All three crops started the month with modest expectations and some areas of concern, but by month’s end all crop estimates had increased. In the case of Russian wheat, they had increased significantly.

‘Troika’ into next week

By Alan Rohrbach | August 18, 2017

No, not the sustained collaboration Troika between the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is overseeing the Greek Debt Bailout. While we feel the Greek Debt Bailout situation is still festering in the background on the IMF actually only funding its commitment once the European creditor nations agree much more extensive Greek debt relief, that is not the ‘troika’ of the moment.

North Korean crisis? Not so much

By Alan Rohrbach | August 9, 2017

There is nothing like the thought of your friendly neighborhood unstable dictator happily cheering along his newly confirmed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and miniaturized nuclear weapons to give the markets pause. And of course, we say ‘neighborhood’ in the sense that media genius Marshall McLuhan noted back in the 1960’s that the new high-speed video communications had turned the entire planet into a ‘global village’.

Pages