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The derivatives market doesn’t deal with fungible assets. Instead, it’s a secondary market focused on the volatility of capital markets and assets. As the name implies, the financial products traded ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) aimed at refining derivative ...

Derivative markets for cryptocurrency involve contracts between a buyer and a seller to trade an asset at a pre-agreed price on a specific date. This gives traders the ability to profit between the ...

Crypto derivatives have become an increasingly large part of the global crypto asset markets, enabling traders to speculate on price movement or hedge their market exposure. Read on to learn what ...

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