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Futures company and one of the largest options and futures exchanges, located in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Multiple industry reports and news outlets describe a persistent structural deficit in the silver market since 2021, with cumulative shortfalls approaching roughly 800 million ounces and 2025 deficits...
A true physical silver shortage is signalled when multiple market layers—futures distortions (backwardation), spiking lease rates, collapsing inventories across major hubs, and sustained regional prem...
Chicago remains a major corporate hub with dozens of large, recognizable companies keeping their headquarters in the city — from quick‑service titan McDonald’s to global exchanges like CME Group and c...
Clear, contemporaneous reporting documents repeated episodes of sharply higher silver lease rates and falling visible inventories across London and Shanghai in 2024–2025: London’s short-term borrowing...
Bitcoin’s network began with the Genesis block mined on January 3, 2009 — the conventional “launch” date cited in multiple timelines . Since then its dollar price moved from effectively $0 in 2009 to ...
A cooling-system failure at CyrusOne’s CHI1 data center outside Chicago halted CME Group’s futures and options markets on Nov. 27–28, 2025, temporarily suspending trading in key contracts and forcing ...
On FOMC announcement days, markets react quickly: U.S. Treasury yields and short-term interest-rate futures move as traders update Fed path expectations, equities often swing on the news, and FX marke...
A sustained rise or fall in feed costs and changes in trade policy rewrite the economics of the cattle cycle by shifting short-run feeding decisions, altering incentives to retain or cull breeding fem...
Calendar (time) spreads come in two main forms: long calendars (buy longer‑dated, sell nearer‑dated) which are usually established as debits, and short/inverted calendars (sell longer‑dated, buy neare...
The U.S. Federal Reserve cut its policy rate by 25 basis points in December 2025, the third cut of the year, prompting a sharp stock-market rally and expectations of further easing into 2026 . Markets...
Bitcoin is not presented in the available reporting as the benchmark for “risk‑free” assets; mainstream financial practice and multiple analysts treat government bonds — not BTC — as the reference ris...
A Fed “policy reset” around Dec. 1, 2025 most concretely means the end of active balance-sheet runoff and a pivot in market expectations about future policy rate cuts — markets are pricing a high prob...
The Fed would most likely signal a "reset" (i.e., a pivot toward rate cuts or a materially different forward guidance) if incoming data showed persistent weakening in labor markets and clear disinflat...