Learn about futures trading, along with how contracts work, key market factors, risks, and potential benefits, and how investors use futures to hedge or speculate.

CME Group is raising margins on Comex silver futures after prices surged to a record high this week.

Here’s all you need to know about new margin requirements.

Wall Street doesn’t own the futures market anymore. For years, futures trading was the exclusive playground of Wall Street; institutions with deep pockets, complex strategies, and servers located ...

Global markets faced sharp losses after a rapid sell-off erased trillions in value within hours. Gold futures fell $300 per ounce in two hours, while crypto and ...

CME Group will change the way it sets margins for gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures after a surge in prices and volatile trading.

Initial margins for copper, which stood at $11,000 per contract, have now been revised higher to $13,200 per contract. Maintenance margins, which were at $10,000 per contract, have been revised higher ...

CME Group raised margin requirements on precious-metal futures for the second time in the space of a week, following a bout of volatility that saw prices spike then retreat. The higher collateral that ...

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Why silver could top $100 an ounce within weeks. Trading-exchange operator CME Group made it more expensive in recent weeks for people to trade silver futures contracts. That doesn't seem to bother ...