Mention derivatives and most people think of Nick Leeson, highly risky financial investments and City 'wide boys' making lots of money. But, insurance, farmers and complex mathematical formulas are as ...

Nadex spreads offered on the North American Derivatives Exchange, or Nadex, are simple derivatives or contracts of an underlying market. A derivative is a simple instrument where the price is derived ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Investors want simple derivative products to cushion the pain of stock market losses and have turned their back on complex, custom-built products which were earning a fortune for ...

WARREN BUFFETT has called them WMDs. In the hands of a rogue trader they can cause the collapse of large companies, some accuse them of contributing to bear markets, others of increasing risk rather ...

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.Basically these instruments call for money to change hands at some future date, with the amount to ...