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 ...

Derivatives are financial instruments that derive their value from one or more underlying financial assets. Learn more about the types of derivatives and the pros and cons of investing. Financial ...

Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in the accounting and finance industries for more than 20 years. Her expertise covers a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Obama administration has proposed exerting new government authority over derivatives, a largely unregulated multi-trillion-dollar market whose excessive risk-taking and poor ...

Financial derivatives are a form of secondary investment, involving a derivative of an underlying security to provide contracts with specific terms including fixed values or fixed time periods.

(Bloomberg) -- Investors in China are piling back into a risky category of derivatives known as snowballs, potentially frustrating financial regulators who tried to rein in the products last year when ...

Despite what Wall Street may have you believe, Congress needs to establish speed limits and traffic lights to improve derivative safety, write David Min and Pat Garofalo. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) ...

(TheNation.com) — Derivatives, derivatives, derivatives! Throughout the financial crisis, the word derivatives has popped up in every corner, every hearing, every news broadcast related to the crash.

Crypto derivatives are financial instruments that derive their value from underlying crypto assets. Traders place their bet based on speculation of the price movements of crypto tokens, and can choose ...

Derivative markets for cryptocurrency involve contracts between a buyer and a seller to trade an asset at a pre-agreed price on a specific date. This gives traders the ability to profit between the ...