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New futures on a 10 year US Treasury Note Volatility Index, which allow investors to hedge interest rate volatility with a single product for the first time, are gaining traction. As the US is ending quantitative easing, market participants are tipping volumes to surge in the first quarter of 2015 as investors look to hedge their fears over looming rate hikes. Beth Shah reports. -
Fresh concerns about downside risks to global demand sent markets lower and option volatility higher in the first few sessions of the year. As if to acknowledge growing expectations for a more volatile 2015, changes in the level of S&P 500 implied volatility set a new record before the first full week of trading was even complete. Investors saw new reasons to worry about the political stability of the eurozone and about its economic path, as Greece moved toward elections and PMI and inflation data suggested weaker growth prospects for the EU. In addition, the continued drop in oil prices led some participants to wonder whether the weak energy market was indicative of worsening broader global demand.
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BNP Paribas is six months away from finalising its acquisition of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s equity derivatives business, according to Nicolas Marque, global head of equity derivatives at BNP Paribas in London.
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It seems like an aeon ago that a relatively small country in south-eastern Europe held the fortunes of the global economy in its hands. But less than two years has passed since Greece’s debt was restructured, and it is all too apparent that the sovereign still has the capacity to create a noise that belies its modest size.
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The opening of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect in November, designed to enable Chinese investors to buy shares in Hong Kong, and international investors to access China’s A share market, promises to open up a new era in Chinese derivatives trading. As Hazel Sheffield reports, market participants are proceeding cautiously, but are confident that the market is going to get big.
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Equity derivatives volumes were a lot higher in December at many of the large exchanges than a year earlier.
