School’s in session. Let’s talk about math. Go back to your calculus class senior year in high school. You take the derivative of y with respect to x. You are finding the sensitivity to the change in ...

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 ...

An economic derivative is a financial contract where payouts depend on future economic indicators. It helps manage risk and speculate on economic forecasts.

The use of derivatives is skyrocketing as more corporations are discovering their capabilities for risk management. In our first annual awards we recognize the derivatives providers that companies and ...

In a victory for small shareholders, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that a trial court erred in its award of more than $125,000 in investigative costs, based on dismissal of a ...

The use of a derivative agreement to mitigate risk can be traced back to around 1754BC, when the Code of Hammurabi was set in stone in Babylon. That was 3,723 years before Euromoney began publication ...

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 ...

Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" (hence the name) their value from an underlying asset. That underlying asset can be stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, even market indexes. For ...

Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is derived from one or more underlying assets or securities (e.g., a stock, bond, currency, or index). A derivative is a contract that derives its ...

Decentralized derivatives are financial contracts that are exchanged on decentralized platforms, often based on blockchain technology, and derive their value from an underlying asset, such as a ...