An economic derivative is a financial contract where payouts depend on future economic indicators. It helps manage risk and speculate on economic forecasts.

Discover how equity derivatives work, their uses in hedging and speculation, and see examples of these financial instruments like options and futures.

Persuaded that lax regulation of financial derivatives contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers in Congress and the Obama Administration have adopted a knee-jerk solution: regulate ...

Financial derivatives are financial instruments that are linked to a specific financial instrument or indicator or commodity, and through which specific financial risks can be traded in financial ...

Some things have changed radically over the last decade, however, the most important being the structure of financial markets. The Great Financial Crisis was arguably caused by the digitalization of ...

Fund managers are moving to get independent values on over-the-counter derivatives, rather than relying on their broker-dealers. Just in the nick of time. "The financial crisis showed the fallacies of ...

Demanding Diversity Through Uniformity“Derivatives” have gone from being the hottest thing on Wall Street to being the hottest thing in Washington. Indeed, President Obama -- who mentioned them no ...

If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer? But the truth ...

Warren Buffett got it right in 2002 when he said derivatives were “financial weapons of mass destruction.” But how do you write about derivatives without boring readers to death? Nicholas Dunbar, a ...

Despite what Wall Street may have you believe, Congress needs to establish speed limits and traffic lights to improve derivative safety, write David Min and Pat Garofalo. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) ...

Partners with Derivative Path to bolster its hedging program, will use its cloud-based OTC trading platform to manage trade execution, sales, operations and Dodd-Frank compliance of its interest rate ...

LMAX Group entered the crypto derivatives arena with 100x leveraged perpetual futures for institutional investors, citing increased demand for these tools. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has ...