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U.S. soybean and corn futures climbed to fresh 6-1/2 year highs on Wednesday, as worries about dry weather hurting Argentine crops attracted speculative buyers, analysts said.

Most chief executives like to think big and Charles Li has been no exception. The outgoing boss of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange built a link with mainland China that handles large trading volumes every day and tried and failed to buy his London rival for $39 billion. That...

Large acquisitions in the fragmented financial data industry are just a foretaste of the dealmaking to come, as vendors seek to expand their offerings and secure resources to invest in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, investment bankers and analysts say.

Data giant S&P Global Inc's plan to buy IHS Markit Ltd for $44 billion will face hard questions from the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, which has indicated that antitrust enforcement will get tougher, anti-trust experts said on Monday.

Falling costs to roll forward U.S. gold futures contracts suggest the market is moving closer to normal trading after turmoil caused by COVID-19 raised investors' overheads, curbed activity and funnelled massive profits to investment banks.

JPMorgan has earned record revenue of around $1 billion so far this year from trading, storing and financing precious metals, vastly outperforming rival banks, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

With bitcoin surging to the cusp of its 2017 all-time high, backers are hoping fewer frenzied retail investors means less chance of a crash this time around.

Global regulators have tightened their scrutiny of whether clearing houses hold enough capital and cash to avoid calling on taxpayers in a crisis, according to new guidelines published on Monday by the Financial Stability Board (FSB).

Copper volumes on world exchanges are climbing again as a buoyant economic recovery from COVID-19 in top metals consumer China spurred speculators to pile back into the market.

The growing use of computer-run algorithms to trade currencies is helping foreign exchange markets function but could undermine the quality of forex prices reported publicly if they become too common, the Bank of International Settlements said on Friday.

Wall Street could see sharp swings in trading after the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election. But there are safeguards in place to keep the stock market or equity futures from sliding out of control. Here is a guide to what exchanges do to halt trading if shares fall sharply.

Wall Street could see sharp swings in trading after the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election. But there are safeguards in place to keep the stock market or equity futures from sliding out of control. Here is a guide to what exchanges do to halt trading if shares fall sharply.

CME Group <CME.O>, the world's biggest futures exchange operator, said on Wednesday third-quarter profit plunged 35% as the ultra-low rate environment, aimed at easing the economic blow of the COVID-19 pandemic, cut demand for some of its top products.

CME Group, the world's biggest futures exchange operator, on Wednesday said its third-quarter profit plunged 35% as decreased trading volumes resulted in lower fees for clearing and settling transactions.

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A pan-European Union record of stock and bond trades would cost 11 million euros ($13 million) to build and save investors billions, a study commissioned by the bloc said on Wednesday.

Forcing banks in the European Union to shift euro clearing from the City of London would prompt a backlash among cost-conscious banks, a senior London Stock Exchange official said.

CME Group Inc <CME.O> informed its members of a positive COVID-19 case in someone who had been in the eurodollar options pit on Sept. 25, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

CME Group Inc informed its members of a positive COVID-19 case in someone who had been in the eurodollar options pit on Sept. 25, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing an internal memo.