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CME Group runs U.S. futures and options exchanges, trading derivatives in rates, equities, commodities and crypto; its FedWatch tool tracks Fed rate odds.
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CME plans to list two Nvidia GPU compute futures on October 5, pending regulatory approval, with prices running 36 months forward. Bitcoin miners that moved into AI hosting can hedge with them only if what they are paid moves with a GPU rental index.
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Hindalco plans to run alumina spot tenders on Metalshub, in a market where it estimates only about 10% of 55-60 million traded tonnes sell spot. The deal data could feed an LME index and later a futures contract, a route reported as possible and unconfirmed.
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Robinhood said eligible US customers will trade eight crypto perpetual futures in its app within months, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether. The product brings leverage US retail traders mostly found on offshore exchanges into a mainstream American brokerage.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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A September 15 cloture vote needs 60 votes, and only 14 working days remain before the October recess. The SEC is drafting a token exemption in the meantime.
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Two filings dated August 18 would import the structure behind an estimated 93% of crypto derivatives volume into equities and metals. Neither is approved, and the book is still small.
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Terry Duffy mocked Kalshi's hot dog contract; Luana Lopes Lara asked about CME's manipulation record. The live question is whether event contracts get exchange-grade oversight, and who writes it.
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The waiver is small against a year of American beef demand and not small against the ground beef it targets. Ranchers will price the risk off expectations, not tonnage.
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A White House remark about CFTC Chairman Michael Selig repriced HYPE and a Nasdaq treasury stock. No approval, no registration path and no timeline has been put on the record.
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The $480bn it waves at the SEC and CFTC is under a tenth of its own venue's volume, and the onshore category it wants to enter is one CME only reopened in July.
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Core services and a sudden run-up in computer prices are holding the Fed's preferred gauge 1.35 points above target. Futures put the September choice at hold or hike.
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Thirty people and a book of institutional trading relationships changed hands on terms nobody disclosed, which leaves the $4.329bn of quarterly revenue BitGo is now trying to put a spread on as the number to read.
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Speculators built a record $51.4 billion net dollar long by late July, weeks before G5 currency option volatility sank to a post-COVID low of 5.33. Currency protection got cheaper even as year-end rate bets climbed from 3.05% to above 4%.
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Brent near $108 and futures pricing a 92.3% chance of a Fed hike took the 10-year to 5.014% intraday. Capital Economics says the United States is not in a fiscal crisis yet because nominal growth still beats debt service.
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Both venues want cash-settled contracts on the largest US listings, with funding payments in place of an expiry date, and because the underlyings are securities the products need the SEC as well as the CFTC.
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Canada's regulator said on September 10 that a tokenized deposit is still just a deposit, and twelve days later all six of the country's largest banks said they would build a shared Canadian-dollar rail together.
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Silicon Data has raised $35.2m since April 2024 and says its own venue has traded hundreds of millions in notional. CME Group intends to reference its benchmarks for cash-settled GPU futures this fall.
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Corn and oat futures are up more than 12% since the start of August on war, drought and two USDA yield cuts. Seeking Alpha reports the growers selling into that rally are in their most acute operational crisis in decades.
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A Glassnode and Bybit report with data through August 23 found coin-denominated open interest fell 12.6% as Bitcoin rose 24.6%, and the same short squeeze repeated this week when the Fed paired a hike with a dovish forecast.
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Bitcoin gained about 3% to $79,000 and took back its 50-week average at $77,430 after Trump said Iran wants a deal. Crude dipped but held above $100, and CME's FedWatch tool puts Wednesday's quarter-point hike at 92.7%.
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