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READ ON News & Articles Sort Posts Most Shared Most Viewed Recently Posted Popular Tags Equities Federal Reserve FX Fed crude oil China OpenMarkets Weekly: Searching The Globe for Yield After the Federal Reserve decided to keep its target rate steady at its January meeting, Chairman Jerome Powell devoted part… Jan 31, 2020 || OpenMarkets The Risks Facing Oil Markets Have Changed The mid-September 2019 drone strike on a Saudi Arabian oil facility and the early January 2020 killing of an Iranian… Feb 5, 2020 || Blu Putnam UK Repo Prepares for Lower Rates from Bank of England The U.K. repo market is increasingly expecting a cut in interest rates, after the U.K. posted weak economic data for… Jan 29, 2020 || Owain Johnson How 20-Year Bonds Will Fit in Interest Rate Markets News that the U.S. Department of the Treasury is planning to issue 20-year bonds in the next few months has… Jan 27, 2020 || Owain Johnson European Repo at A Crossroads in 2020 The European repo markets navigated the traditionally challenging end-of-year funding cycle in an atmosphere of relative calm. But repo market… Jan 15, 2020 || Owain Johnson Why The Global Role For U.S. Wheat Is Changing U.S. Soft Red Winter wheat (SRW) production hit near record lows in 2019 after experiencing year-over-year declines in planted and… Jan 9, 2020 || Dominic Sutton-Vermeulen How China’s Clean Energy Switch Is Driving Natural Gas Demand China is seeing significant growth in demand for natural gas as the government encourages the switch away from coal to… Dec 26, 2019 || Christopher Fix Could We See A Santa Claus Rally? A Santa Claus rally describes a steady increase in the stock market that occurs in the last week of December… Dec 24, 2019 || Scott Bauer Two Years Later, Bitcoin Futures Are More Important Than Ever On May 13, 2019, the price of bitcoin saw a sudden surge. After going below the $3,500 mark in late… Dec 20, 2019 || Tim McCourt Gold: Dollar Hedge or Expensive Door Stop? Depending on who you talk to, gold is either an inflation hedge, a currency proxy, a safe-haven asset or a… Dec 13, 2019 || Jim Iuorio Will Uncleared Margin Rules Change the FX Landscape? Among foreign exchange market participants, there is a nearly unanimous view that uncleared margin rules (UMR) are the major catalyst… Dec 13, 2019 || Phil Hermon Aramco IPO May Change Everything for OPEC+ Anyone who has traded crude oil knows that, for the better part of five decades, The Organization of the Petroleum… Dec 10, 2019 || Bob Iaccino Connect About Subscribe CME Group Home Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions ©2020 CME Group Inc. About -- About OpenMarkets About OpenMarkets OpenMarkets , produced by CME Group, is designed to keep you informed on the stories and trends that impact markets today and in the future. 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