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Trading begins at the DME
After months of setbacks, the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), the Middle East’s first international energy futures and commodities exchange, opened for business today.
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Brown to join AQR Capital
Applied Quantitative Research Capital (AQR), a $37.5 billion Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, has hired Aaron Brown as a risk manager. Brown is due to start in his new role in late June. He joins from Morgan Stanley in New York, where he was head…
CBOT to launch CBOT CDR Liquid 50 NAIG Index futures contracts
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) has announced plans to launch electronically-traded credit default swap index futures contracts.