Even though they are often viewed as elite investment vehicles, hedge funds have struggled to match the steady returns of well-managed 401(k) plans.

Derivatives are often used for hedging, which is a strategy used to offset the risk of adverse price movements in an asset. For example, a farmer may use a futures contract to sell their crops at ...

The record short interest is led by carry trades and some amount of outright bearish bets on the second-largest ...

Bitcoin mining firms turn to financial tools like hashrate derivatives to stabilize income and support operational growth.

Hedge funds have positioned for Donald Trump ... commodity trading adviser funds that trade futures and other derivatives – long dollar bets are “stretched, especially versus the euro.” ...

On Wall Street, what’s old is new again. “Portable alpha” is back, after years in the doldrums. The strategy combines index investing with active money-management. For example, a pension fund might ...

Over the past few years, the Reserve Bank has been expanding the suite of interest rate derivative products available to ...

Mexico's finance ministry said on Tuesday it was implementing measures to guarantee the stability of financial markets, as ...

The emergence of event-based trading platforms such as KalshiEX LLC and Crypto.com/Nadex has sparked a heated regulatory and policy debate over ...

BYD, the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) maker, has earmarked US$5 billion for foreign exchange derivatives trading to reduce risks to its fast-growing global operations from the yuan’s ...