U.S. stock market futures were mixed Friday ahead of a pivotal speech from Fed Chair Jerome Powell in which the central bank chief will set out his views on where to take interest rates. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 60 points,

Futures and forex markets are both popular options for investors looking to trade financial assets, but they differ in key ways. Futures involve standardized contracts to buy or sell assets at a set price on a future date,

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Prices of lithium carbonate futures in China slid by more than 3% on Friday to hit their lowest in two weeks. The most active lithium carbonate futures on the Guangzhou Futures Exchange touched the lowest level since August 8 at 78,720 yuan ($10,957) per metric ton.

Oil futures posted weekly gains as efforts toward negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war looked like they’ll take longer than it previously appeared.

Fed minutes are due, and top retailers will report earnings in the coming week. But the main attraction will be Jerome Powell's speech on Friday.

The final grand slam of the year begins this week in New York. Taft Gantt went up 18 units last month at Wimbledon and now gives his best bets for the U.S. Open

Prices this month have risen more than 30 per cent to above US$12,530, before paring monthly gains to around 21 per cent as of Thursday.

By Julie Ingwersen and Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) -In a head-to-head contest in a small corner of agricultural futures markets, a legacy spring wheat contract that has traded for more than 140 years is fending off a challenge from a competing contract launched this spring by CME Group,