Jeremy Stretch will be joining CIBC’s macro strategy team in late July as executive director and head of FX strategy.

The founders of one of Britain's largest retail foreign exchange brokers have agreed to a takeover by a US rival as part of an ambitious plan to take on some of the biggest players in the highly-lucrative online trading market.

The world's largest futures exchange announces a new contract that will bring longer-term pricing to a market that has traditionally been served only by a spot market

Standard & Poor’s has launched the S&P World Commodity Index, the first index to consist solely of listed commodity futures contracts that trade outside of the US.

Three former Commodity Futures Trading Commission executives have set up a derivatives consultancy in Washington

Triton Capital Advisors, a provider of managed futures investments, has appointed Stephen Klawitter as senior vice president.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The CME Group said Friday that it did not experience technology or systems issues associated with trading activity between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Central time on Thursday. The futures operator said its markets "functioned properly yesterday despite significant market activity due to global macroeconomic conditions and apparent problems that resulted in the cancellation or 'busting' of securities transactions by The Nasdaq Stock Market and the NYSE Arca." After the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 1,000 points in less than one hour Thursday, speculation swirled that an errant trade in index futures traded on a CME platform was behind the cascade. CME's own shares slipped 0.7% on Friday.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

New Yorkbased Auldyn Partners has launched the Country Alpha Fund

Things improved—marginally—for Quantitative Investment Management in April, and just barely, as well.

Discussing the future of high-frequency trading and whether the technology is part of the problem, with Irene Aldridge, Able Alpha Trading; Joe Saluzzi, Themis Trading; and CNBC's Rick Santelli.

It may not have struck gold yet, but Paulson & Co.’s new hedge fund dedicated to the precious metal is finally finding something other than negative returns.

U.K.-based systematic hedge fund manager Quality Capital Management today unveiled a new UCITS III compliant fund, the DB Platinum IV QCM GDP Index Fund. The Luxembourg-registered vehicle, which is part of Deutsche Bank’s funds platform, replicates the investment profile and performance of QCM’s flagship managed futures product, Global Diversified Programme.

Deutsche Bank has teamed up with systematic macro hedge fund manager QCM for the launch of a managed futures Newcits fund.

LONDON (Reuters) - Ebullio Capital Management's commodity fund returned 61.40 percent in April, but year to date the figure is still a negative 92.31 percent, the UK-based fund said in its April newsletter sent on Thursday.

Man Group on Monday said it has agreed to buy one of its biggest rivals, GLG Partners, in a cash-and-shares deal valuing GLG at $1.6bn (€1.3bn) to create a hedge fund giant managing $63bn across a range of hedge fund and traditional stock investment strategies.

Such markets, though, are gaining ground, and more traditional markets, like the NYSE, are losing it. While the New York Stock Exchange remains the center of attention for global markets, much of the real action in the world's stock trading emanates from drab computer rooms in outposts such as Kansas City, Mo., or Jersey City, N.J.

Standard Poors has introduced the SP Commodity Trading Strategy Index

Alan Heap, managing director and global commodity analyst with Citi Investment Research, says industrial metals are under pressures due China tightening fears. He speaks to CNBC's Oriel Morrison about his outlook for the commodity sector.

Hollywood and Wall Street are expected to clash today at a hearing in Washington DC over controversial plans to allow bets on future box-office revenues. Attendees will include Richard Jaycobs, president of a unit of brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald that's hoping to launch a platform allowing bets on movie...

Pardo Financial Group is rolling out a managed futures fund that allocates across multiple registered Commodity Trading Advisors

New York-based Golden Archer Investments has recently launched a pair of volatility arbitrage funds to bet on swings in the market. In February, the firm unveiled the Golden Archer VAF Fund and followed it up last month with the launch of the Golden Archer LBF Fund. “We use the same pricing model that we use in the arbitrage fund to find underpriced hedges for our long portfolio,” David Rucker, portfolio manager, told FINalternatives.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission may find additional authority to oversee overthecounter derivatives and futures overwhelming according to Jill Sommers one of the CFTCs five commissioners reports Financial Times

Invesco’s global asset allocation team has been awarded its first mandate in its balanced-risk commodity strategy.

Eurozone debt crisis and tensions in Korea sees demand soarEuropean investors have started to hoard gold as the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone and escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula shake global equity markets."Currently, European gold investment demand is exceptionally strong, especially from German and Swiss investors," said Aram Shishmanian, chief executive of the World Gold Council (WGC).Evidence of the growing appetite for traditionally safe investments also came from New York's SPDR Gold Trust, the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, which reported that its holdings had leapt by more than 30 tonnes to a record 1,267.3 tonnes on Tuesday – its biggest one-day inflow since February last year.Spot gold prices rose to a record $1,248.95 an ounce earlier this month, and are currently holding at around $1,200. "A lot of that is hot money flying to safety in gold funds because it doesn't know where to go in a uncertain world," said Eagle Mining Research analyst Keith Goode. "I expect to continue to see that figure rise. The danger in that is the instant things settle, that hot money will shoot straight back out and into the next vehicle, so be ready for more volatility."The surge in interest follows a weak start to the year in the gold market. The WGC's quarterly review reported that demand fell 25% to 760.2 tonnes in the first quarter, albeit compared with what the council described as "exceptional activity" a year ago.The WGC said that the market has picked up since the quarter ended, with exchange traded funds – which give smaller investors exposure to markets they otherwise could not participate in – reporting increased demand in April and May.GoldInvestingMarket turmoilZoe Woodguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gold is one of the more mysterious assets in the financial markets. It's volatile at times to the point of inducing vertigo and fans of the precious metal assert, somewhat contradictorily, its prowess as a hedge against both inflation and deflation.

The hedge fund giant has had a tough year as its flagship strategy foundered in the difficult market conditions but there are signs it has turned the corner.