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Topic: Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange

	Trade Currency Futures, Currency Futures Exchange Rates, Currency Futures News
		The CME offers trading in a wide variety of currency futures, but the reality is that low volume and open interest in many currency futures markets make them unsuitable for most traders.
		The Euro FX futures contract listed at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is based on the European currency traded by the world's largest governments, banks, and currency traders.
		Futures in general lend themselves to a variety of different trading timeframes: Short, medium, or long-term.
	www.xpresstrade.com /currency_futures.php (1472 words)

	Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (Bolsa de Mercadorias and Futuros, BMandF)
		It was formed in 1991 with the merger of the São Paulo Commodities Exchange, created in 1971, and the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BMandF) established in 1985.
		Futures and options are traded on the Ibovespa stock market index, and options on the flexible Ibovespa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BM&F (472 words)

	Stock exchange - Wikipedia
		A stock exchange is an organization of brokers and investment bankers which has the purpose of providing the facilities for trade--usually a central location and recordkeeping.
		Trade on an exchange is by members only; one is said to "have a seat" on the exchange.
		Since the crash of 1929, brokers on American exchanges have had the obligation to assure an orderly and fair market by intervening when the price of a stock seems to be rising or falling too fast - The crash also launched a whole new topic in Economics - Efficient Markets Theory.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stock_exchange (1077 words)

	Exchanges With Currency Contracts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange - On October 26, 1917, exporters, businessmen, and commodity producers founded the São Paulo Commodities Exchange (BMSP).
		Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange is an international marketplace that brings together buyers and sellers of derivatives products, which trade on its trading floors, on its GLOBEX® electronic trading system and through privately negotiated transactions.
		In terms of commodities, MATIF contributes to the development of the farming and agribusiness sectors with its rapeseed and milling wheat futures.
	www.forexlisting.com /exchanges_with_currency_contracts.asp (922 words)

	List of futures exchanges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Those stock exchanges that also offer trading in futures contracts besides trading in securities are listed both here and the List of stock exchanges.
		Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE), precursor to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
		Korea Exchange (KRX), formed from merger of KSE, KOFEX and KOSDAQ exchanges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_futures_exchanges (182 words)

	Gringoes
		The Ptax is the medium exchange rate at which the dollar futures front month and around $50 million in dollar swaps will be settled.
		At the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) on Tuesday dollar futures contracts fell and trading volume rose 21% to $8.58 billion.
		Elsewhere at the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) the interest rate futures contract maturing Jan 1/06 (the most liquid) ended at 19.33% from 19.32% on Monday.
	www.gringoes.com /articles_business.asp?ID_Noticia=2917 (395 words)

	Gringoes
		The real was boosted on Thursday by the August crude oil contract falling 3.68% to $57.80/barrel in New York and by a lack of developments on the recently scandal-ridden political scene in Brazil.
		At the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) on Thursday dollar futures fell and trading volume rose 5.36% to $4.91 billion.
		Elsewhere at the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) on Thursday the Jan 1/07 interest rate futures contract ended at 17.47% from 17.48% and Jan 1/06 ended at 19.12% from 19.14% from Wednesday.
	www.gringoes.com /articles_business.asp?ID_Noticia=3141 (375 words)

	BrazilCouncil: Welcome
		Brazilian forex market players also tended to buy a bit more in dollar prior to the long weekend (Friday will be a public holiday in Brazil).
		At the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) dollar futures rose and volume shrank 10% to $7.69 billion.
		Next week the exchange rate is likely to be affected by the battle to influence the Friday Ptax median exchange rate at which the dollar futures front month will be settled.
	www.brazilcouncil.org /displayFeedContent.asp?newsitemid=19930 (418 words)

	Commodity Trader: exchanges Archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The potential for futures exchanges is as breathtaking today as it was in 1972 when we created financial futures, and in 1981, when we induced the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to approve cash settlement.
		The origin of these products, which are now traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was the desire of companies like Enron to reduce their earnings volatility by, in effect, constructing a hedge against unfavorable weather.
		Shanghai copper futures, which account for nearly 40 percent of all futures trade in China, are the likely first candidate for an options contract, which gives a purchaser the right -- but not the obligation -- to buy or sell the underlying security at a certain price during a specified time.
	www.commoditytrader.com /archives/cat_exchanges.php (2824 words)

	CME Group and Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange Sign Agreement for Cross-Equity Stakes and Exclusive Order ...
		The agreement will be exclusive to BM&F among exchanges in Central and South America, and exclusive to CME among exchanges outside of that region or China.
		The investment agreement will include a provision to permit termination if the agreements are not completed and the investment transaction is not closed by March 31, 2008.
		The order-routing arrangement would be exclusive to CME as an exchange provider of order-routing services to BM&F outside of Central and South America, and exclusive to BM&F among exchanges in that region.
	www.grainnet.com /articles/CME_Group_and_Brazilian_Mercantile_and_Futures_Exchange_Sign_Agreement_for_Cross_Equity_Stakes_and_Exclusive_Order_Routing_Deal_-49776.html (642 words)

	Risk magazine - The risk of three markets
		Small futures contracts — one-tenth the size of standard futures — on live cattle and the Bovespa stock market index will be offered initially.
		Just over a month ago, the expansion of online futures trading was one of the focal points for a delegation from the Brazilian Central Bank, who made a derivatives fact-finding mission to the exchange.
		The exchange has also been deeply involved in the over-the-counter market for around a decade: there is a registration service for swaps and exotic options transactions that allows traders to post collateral with the clearing house, which then becomes the central counterparty to the trade — guaranteeing settlement.
	db.riskwaters.com /public/showPage.html?page=199675 (886 words)

	Bloomberg.com: News & Commentary
		Volatility in the price relationship of soybeans delivered in the U.S. and in Brazil has been high because supplies surge when Brazilian farmers end their harvest in April and May, just as U.S. growers are beginning to plant crops that won't be collected until October and November, when Brazil is planting.
		Chicago futures are sold in dollars a bushel, a volumetric unit that usually equals about 60 pounds of soybeans.
		At the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange, which began trading in 1985, a total of 7,225 contracts changed hands last year, more than double the 2,917 in 2003.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=email_us&refer=news_index&sid=awTaMNK1lWyk (939 words)

	IDB welcomes creation of Brazilian Carbon Market
		The purpose of the seminar was to discuss the role of agro-energy and the carbon market in sustainable development and to present some mechanisms to be introduced by the Brazilian Carbon Market to promote projects that reduce carbon emissions in Latin America.
		The Brazilian Carbon Market is a joint initiative between the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BMandF) and the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade to develop an efficient trading system for Certified Emission Reductions aligned with the principles underlying the Kyoto Protocol.
		Vives emphasized the Bank’s commitment to this initiative and reminded seminar participants that this year’s Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the IDB is the first annual meeting of a multilateral bank that will be carbon neutral.
	www.iadb.org /news/articledetail.cfm?Language=En&artType=PR&parid=2&artid=2982 (409 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		The idea is being explored at a five-day seminar that got under way here Monday, organized by the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange and markets based in Rosario, Argentina, and Dalian, China.
		"We have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese exchange of Dalian that will serve as a point of reference in our quest for a joint futures market, so we can operate in their markets and they in ours," Rosario futures exchange chief Jorge Weskamp told to the press.
		Under the current arrangement, world soy prices are set by the Chicago exchange, which, Weskamp said, does not always reflect the necessities of "our market." He did not venture to predict how long it will take for Argentine, Brazilian and Chinese exchanges to establish a parallel soy market, noting that many interests are involved.
	www.mercopress.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=7684 (708 words)

	Farms.com - agriculture information, markets, auctions and commentary
		The Chicago Board of Trade is considering launching a soybean futures contract with physical delivery in Brazil in response to demand from Brazilian soybean farmers, crushers and merchants, the Financial Times reported Feb. 26 in an article on its website.
		He added that while the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BMandF) offered a soybean futures contract, trading had been constrained by a local tax on financial transactions.
		Last year, just 2,900 soybean futures contracts were traded at the BMandF, compared with more than 1.6m at the CBOT in December alone, the FT said.
	www.farms.com /readstory.asp?dtnnewsid=926111 (207 words)

	University of Tennessee: Global Business Institute
		The WEF is possibly the most well-known gathering of policymakers, economists and businesspeople, and the emphasis of the organization is on international economic events, with of course a more pro-business slant in general.
		The World Federation of Exchanges, formerly FIBV - International Federation of Stock Exchanges, is the trade organization for regulated securities and derivative markets, settlement institutions and related clearing houses, and their diverse services to capital markets.
		Its purpose is to facilitate the representation, development of organized and regulated markets, and to meet the needs of evolving capital markets in the best interest of their users.
	bus.utk.edu /globi/InternationalBusinessFinanceSites.htm (543 words)

	Microsoft SQL Server: Companies Switching to SQL Server
		Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BMandF) chose SQL Server and the Microsoft platform to build its leading-edge foreign exchange clearinghouse.
		After the deployment of a mainframe-based solution failed, the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation chose the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000 to support its 18,000 branch offices and 200,000 employees, and to process millions of transactions per day and more that 15 million documents a month.
		Smead's migration from an Oracle environment to SQL Server simplifies operations, provides rapid failover and recovery of mission-critical applications, supports future growth, and enables new e-business intiatives for its PeopleSoft applications—all with a 75 percent reduction in total cost of ownership.
	www.microsoft.com /sql/prodinfo/compare/switchers.mspx (1800 words)

	Hispanic Business - Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange Selects e-Security For Real-Time Enterprise Security ...
		The proliferation of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software solutions and security applications across corporate networks has provided network security administrators with megabytes of data that are both difficult to understand and time-consuming to manage.
		BMandF is the most important Mercantile and Future Exchange and the largest Clearing House in Latin America, with an average daily volume of operations reaching US$ 20 Billion.
		Its origin goes back to the Mercantile Exchange of Sao Paulo (BMSP), founded in 1917, that was acquired by the new BMandF in 1985, year of its foundation.
	www.hispanicbusiness.com /news/newsbyid.asp?id=11474 (563 words)

	Vision Solutions :: Case Studies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros The Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) is one of the ten largest futures exchanges in the world.
		BM&F also operates a Foreign Exchange Clearinghouse, which is responsible for, approximately, 85% of the interbank spot market in Brazil...
		A wide range of comprehensive services, a modern warehousing system and impressive levels of reliability form the foundation of a solid future.
	www.visionsolutions.com /CaseStudies.aspx?productId=2 (530 words)

	Future stock trading commodity investing online broker single stock futures trades quotes charts First American Futures ...
		Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange - Bolsa de Mercadorias and Futuros (BMF)
		You should contact First American Futures, Inc. to obtain a copy of the finalized required Single Stock Futures products risk disclosure statement.
		Single Stock Futures and security futures products are not suitable for all types of investors.
	www.firstamericanfutures.com /exchanges.asp (312 words)

	Yo!Pages.com : FOREX/Exchange/Currency_Futures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (Site Rating: 0.
		offering brazilian real futures contracts and euro futures contracts, including options on futures.
		south african rand futures versus the usd; notional amounts of $100,000.
	yopages.com /FOREX/Exchange/Currency_Futures (52 words)

	AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
		Federal public company that is associated to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, which has as an objective to long term financing of endeavors that contribute towards the development of the country.
		With information in English, Portuguese and Mandarin on the main Brazilian futures exchange, which has both financial and commodity contracts.
		Offers consultancy to foreign companies which plan to establish commercial or industrial units in Brazilian territory, by performing juridical, economical and fiscal analysis, also for application of several fiscal benefits offered by the Union, States and Cities.
	www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Regional/South_America/Brazil/Business_and_Economy/Financial_Services (457 words)

	Morningstar - Dow Jones & Company, Inc.: Brazil Real Closes Weaker On Oil Prices, US Data (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The real closed at BRL2.192 to the dollar in spot contract trading on the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange, or BMF, weaker from Monday's close of BRL2.175.
		Following the habitual month-end battle by long- and short-position holders to influence the average foreign exchange rate, known as the Ptax, on Monday, investors turned their attention to events abroad Tuesday.
		The Brazilian Central Bank's policy of buying dollars on the local market to build stocks continues to weigh on the market.
	news.morningstar.com /news/DJ/M08/D01/200608011604DOWJONESDJONLINE000909.html?Cat=Americas (520 words)

	THE CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE
		The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is one of the world's premiere futures and options exchanges, offering a diverse range of financial products for institutional and retail investors.
		Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the CME has maintained a firm commitment to providing the marketplace with risk management tools to capitalize on opportunities in domestic and international financial markets.
		The CME's Mexican peso futures contract, launched in April 1995 was the first emerging markets product to be traded on the Exchange.
	emgmkts.com /contrib/cme.htm (485 words)

	Barchart.com - Futures Quotes and Futures Charts
		Futures contract symbols are split into three parts:
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	sites3.barchart.com /pl/vsn/symbols.htx (150 words)

	ASPnews.com -- News : OptiGlobe Names Furst at VP of U.S. Sales
		OptiGlobe operates three data centers in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, and will be launching operations in Mexico City in the first quarter of this year.
		The company currently has 200 customers, including the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange, Coca-Cola, Daimler-Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ford, Globo and Nabisco.
		Spiceworks is the first free IT management software designed to meet the unique needs of small and medium businesses.
	www.aspnews.com /news/print.php/11277_953831 (259 words)

	INO.com Futures, Stocks, FOREX, and Options Quotes
		The information contained in INO Quotes and all Chart pages is compiled for the convenience of site visitors and is furnished on a Exchange delayed basis by DTN, Nanex, and Tenfore ("Quote Providers").
		The Exchange, INO and Quote Providers furnish quotes delayed at least 20 minutes without responsibility for accuracy and is accepted by the site visitor on the condition that transmission or omissions shall not be made the basis for any claim, demand or cause for action.
		The information and data was obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but we do not guarantee its accuracy.
	quotes.ino.com (343 words)

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