Exchanges

CME Group buys Nymex and offloads metals

Exchange consolidation continued over the weekend, with CME Group buying Nymex, the New York-based metals and energy exchange, and selling its own metals business to the NYSE Euronext group.

Montreal Climate Exchange to launch carbon futures

The Montréal Climate Exchange (MCeX), a joint venture of the Montréal Exchange (MX) and the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is planning to launch futures contracts on Canada carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) units on May 30, 2008, subject to regulatory…

Crude Oil surges to $107

The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) benchmark oil contract has exceeded $107 per barrel in midday trading as the value of the US dollar continues to plunge

FFAs: rocking the boat?

The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) plumbed the depths in early 2008, sinking from record highs in late 2007. Some have blamed derivatives market activity for the sharp fall. Roderick Bruce casts a beady eye over the BDI and asks where prices are heading next

The prepay delay

Municipal natural gas prepayment deals withered in the second half of 2007 as a result of the credit crisis. While this year has seen a trickle of new deals, greater problems may be lurking. David Watkins reports

A changing carbon market climate

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme is stepping up a notch with a batch of new measures for its Third Phase. Andrew Holt finds out what carbon market participants think of the new proposals

The end of the monoline?

Fears that monoline bond insurers would lose their triple-A ratings rocked global capital markets in February. As bankers, regulators and industry chiefs gawp at the cracks in the insurers' foundations, Daniel Andrews investigates where it all went wrong…

Back to basics

We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask... Teresa Callaghan, at credit management firm Transcom, looks at the debt sale market

Profile: Piero Bassu

The head of credit risk at UK mortgage lender Platform talks to Dippy Singh about portfolio consolidation and avoiding knee-jerk reactions to the credit crisis

Column – Nigel Rendell

Emerging markets, particularly China, may provide a welcome source of returns this year but investors need to watch out for the effects of any US recession on the sector.

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