Agricultural futures contracts are standardized agreements to buy or sell a particular quantity of a commodity at a predetermined price at a particular date in the future. Contracts are traded on ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is proposing to expand agricultural futures trading hours to a 24/7 schedule. CFTC says the change would make the market more vibrant, while brokers and ...

WASHINGTON -- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said April 27 that reconciling the derivatives section of the Senate financial services reform bill and the House version ...

Governments and politics have always had an impact on the world’s agricultural futures markets. Doug Christie, an ex-Cargill agribusiness executive and author of the newsletter Agricultural ...

NPPC raised concerns about the impacts new market structures could have on liquidity, contract settlement, price discovery ...

Demand for commodities across the board is coming from a returning focus on the "scarcity premium" -- the potential that the world is short on some materials it needs ...

Agricultural futures and ETFs are showing some explosive movements. The oats and wheat markets are making significant gains after the Independence Day holiday. While soybeans shot higher last Friday ...

NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) - Index funds, the biggest participants in the commodities markets, last week sold a record amount of agricultural futures valued at over $7 billion and could double those ...

HAMBURG, May 28 (Reuters) - German/Swiss exchange Eurex will start agricultural derivatives trading in July, continuing its expansion in commodities, the company said on Thursday. Sign up here. The ...

Lane Akre, economist with Pro Farmer, says much of the China news is priced into grain futures so to continue to see momentum ...

Nigeria as a major supplier of agro commodities around the world has demonstrated potential for continued growth in the agricultural sector. One facility that will place it in the community of leading ...