Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

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 ...

Boaz Weinstein's Saba Capital Management has sold credit derivatives in recent months to lenders seeking protection on big ...

The central bank in Moscow is going to give Russian investors access to derivative instruments based directly on ...

Financial instruments are becoming increasingly complicated, and a new survey of CPA financial executives by the AICPA found concern about the valuation of instruments such as derivatives, with fears ...

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 ...

The commission said it was looking into whether they allocated demand, coordinated prices and shared commercially sensitive ...

Derivatives, as the name implies, are financial contracts which call for money to change hands at some point in the future, with the amount to be determined by reference to other items, such as share ...

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 ...

President Obama called Wednesday for more oversight of derivatives — the financial products that helped sink insurance giant AIG — when he met with Congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...