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This included program trading associated with the July 15 monthly expiration of stock-index options and futures.

Program Trading 2011

On Wednesday, Sandler O'Neill analyst Richard Repetto released a report saying that exchanges such as Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. and NYSE Euronext could see better earnings than expected in the third quarter, due to "surging" volumes in both stocks and derivatives contracts such as stock-index futures.

Wild Trading Is Little Help for Banks Aaron Lucchetti 2011

CME earned an average of 70.4 cents per stock-index contract traded, the latest figures show.

Deal Would Unite S&P With DJIA Gina Chon 2011

The S&P 500 stock-index remains up 6.8% this year despite suffering its biggest loss for the year on Friday.

Crossing a Golden Barrier Brendan Conway 2012

On Sunday, the bank revised that, disclosing a loss of $2.3 billion and explaining that the losses stemmed from unhedged bets on stock-index futures.

More Pressure on UBS Chief Deborah Ball 2011

Electronically traded contracts linked to the S&P 500 index are CME's most-traded stock-index futures, a market that saw an average of 4.7 million contracts change hands per day in August.

Deal Would Unite S&P With DJIA Gina Chon 2011

Germany's main exchange operator has found that a miniature "flash crash" in late August—in which stock-index futures dived 4% before recovering in a matter of minutes—was simply the result of a barrage of selling by financial institutions, and not the handiwork of superfast computerized traders.

High-Speed Traders Off Hook in Germany Jacob Bunge 2011

Europe's persistent debt problems, which have whipped U.S. stocks for months, show few signs of abating, leaving Wall Street's year-end stock-index targets all but out of reach.

No Year-End Stock Surge in Sight Brendan Conway 2011

The big moves captured attention because of its resemblance to the May 2010 "flash crash," when heavy selling of U.S. stock-index futures snowballed into a market-wide upheaval that jammed exchange systems and prompted some major electronic-trading houses to abruptly stop doing business—moves seen as contributing to a sudden 9% decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

High-Speed Traders Off Hook in Germany Jacob Bunge 2011

For the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock-index, spreads have been at their widest since late 2009, when markets were finally calming down from the worst of the financial crisis.

Traders Warn of Market Cracks Tom Lauricella 2011