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MarketsWiki is an online open source knowledge base for current and historical information about the global exchange traded capital, derivatives, environmental and related OTC markets. MarketsWiki is powered by content contributions from paid readers of the John Lothian Newsletter, Environmental Markets Newsletter and Frontier Markets Newsletter and from a team of professional financial journalists, educators and consultants.

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MFA's Network 2009

When: Feb. 8-10, 2009
Where: Key Biscayne, Florida
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Network 2009 is MFA's alternative investment industry networking conference and exposition for professionals in the hedge fund and alternative investment industries. Network 2009 will feature an extensive educational program, special networking opportunities, and an informative exhibition of products and services of interest to industry professionals.

Network 2009 attendees include investment, hedge fund and fund of funds managers; prime, securities and futures brokers; pension fund managers; and service providers who support the industry.

Your full conference registration includes entrance to the keynote speakers, general sessions, and entrance into the exhibit hall, breaks, breakfasts, luncheons, and evening receptions. Sponsorship opportunities and exhibit booth space are also available.

MFA characterizes itself as the global voice of the alternative investment industry. Its members are professionals in hedge funds, funds of funds and managed futures funds, as well as industry service providers. Established in 1991, MFA is the primary source of information for policy makers and the media and the leading advocate for sound business practices and industry growth. MFA members include the vast majority of the largest hedge fund groups in the world who manage a substantial portion of the approximately $2 trillion invested in absolute return strategies. MFA is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with an office in New York.

Sponsorship opportunities and exhibit booth space are also available.

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Featured Article

ICE Millions FX and Russell 1000 Index Mini Set Daily Volume Records
Nine Consecutive Days of Growth for ICE Millions

ATLANTA, Nov 20, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- ICE Futures U.S., a leading regulated U.S. futures exchange for global agricultural, equity index and currency markets, reported record volume in its new ICE Millions foreign exchange futures contracts of 735 contracts, or 7,350 mini-equivalent contracts, on November 19. The exchange also announced a new daily volume record for the Russell 1000 Index Mini futures contracts of 2,161 contracts.

Yesterday was the ninth consecutive trading day of volume growth for the ICE Millions FX contracts. In the first two weeks of trading, ICE Millions traded over $3 billion U.S. dollars in notional value. On November 6, ICE Futures U.S. launched the suite of ICE Millions futures. The contracts are ten times the notional value of the existing suite of ICE FX futures and options contracts. Covering a dozen currency cross rates, the ICE Millions bring price and transactional efficiencies to the FX marketplace.

Market data for ICE Millions and the Russell index futures contracts are available via the ICE website at www.theice.com. (more)

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John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. launched Frontier Markets Newsletter (FMN), edited by Rob Luke on September 2, 2008. This newsletter focuses on trading and investment related topics from emerging market countries, but will also include some coverage Brazil, Russia, India and China. The theme for the newsletter is Invest in the World.

If you are interested in subscribing, email to Rob Luke. FMN will be offered for free until January 1, 2009 and will thereafter be priced at $250 per year. A subscription to FMN includes a subscription to the John Lothian Newsletter.

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The John Lothian Newsletter was launched during the summer or 2000 and was offered for free for its first 3 years. In 2003, the newsletter switched to a voluntary pay format. Readers are asked to pay for the newsletter if they find it valuable. An annual subscription for the John Lothian Newsletter in 2008 is $115. Enterprise rates are available for organizations with 5 or more readers.

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Environmental Markets Newsletter and the John Lothian Newsletter are designed to keep readers informed in the fast growing environmental market space and the futures and securities industries respectively. Both aggregate public and restricted access information available over Internet in an easy to use, reader friendly format. Utilizing a headline, lead paragraph and hyperlink format, readers can quickly assess the stories they want to read more on and those they want to glance over.

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Headlines

RBS Bank Chairman McKillop "Profoundly Sorry"
Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Tom McKillop told investors he was "profoundly sorry" for the crisis which left it needing a 20 billion pound government rescue package. (more)

Financials Need At Least $1 Trillion: Analyst
(Reuters) - The U.S. financial system still needs at least $1 trillion to $1.2 trillion of tangible common equity to restore confidence and improve liquidity in the credit markets, Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Paul Miller said. (more)

Sen Harkin Seeks To Force All Derivatives Onto Exchanges
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D- Iowa, plans to introduce a bill Thursday that would force all over-the-counter derivatives, including credit default swaps, onto regulated futures exchanges. (more)

Record Options Trading Slows After Hedge Funds Fold
U.S. options trading slowed this month from a record pace after hedge funds collapsed and the biggest market swings since 1929 made equity derivatives too expensive to be used as insurance against stock losses. (more)

U.S. Carbon Futures Start Trade as Low as $11.75/Ton (Correct)
U.S. carbon dioxide futures, which may be used under a potential mandatory cap-and-trade program as early as 2013, traded as low as $11.75 a metric ton on Nov. 18, their debut on the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange. (more)

Deutsche Boerse Starts `Dark Pool' Next Week, Doesn't Plan MTF
Deutsche Boerse AG will start a service for investors to trade large orders of stocks through an internal electronic matching system that won't display prices, without setting up a separate trading platform like some rivals. (more)

Credit Cards Will Be The Next Big Financial Blowup
WASHINGTON is so nervous that credit cards will become the next financial sinkhole that the government will soon ask banks to go through the arduous task of running tests on hundreds of millions of their cardholders. (more)

UK's Brown Says Further Steps May Be Needed To Free Up Britain's Credit Markets
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that further measures may be needed to encourage banks to resume a normal flow of credit to small British businesses and homeowners. (more)

U.S. Company Auctions 300,000 U.N. Carbon Credits
U.S.-based online exchange World Energy Solutions Inc. said on Thursday it has completed an auction for carbon credits that can be used for compliance under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol on global warming. (more)

CME Group to Launch 26 New Monthly PJM Electricity Futures Contracts on ClearPort
CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it will launch 26 new PJM peak and off-peak electricity swap futures contracts on ClearPort, beginning December 7 for trade date December 8. (more)

Euroclear To Acquire Xtrakter From ICMA
Euroclear and the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) signed an agreement whereby Euroclear SA/NV will acquire 100 percent of Xtrakter Ltd., the ICMA subsidiary, for an undisclosed cash amount. Xtrakter owns TRAX, a trade matching and regulatory reporting system that also provides market and reference data. Pending receipt of regulatory approvals, Xtrakter will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Euroclear SA/NV and a sister company to the Euroclear group’s international and national central securities depositories, and EMXCo. (more)

ICE Futures Cuts Trading Hours For Certain Futures, Options
Nov. 19 (Reuters) - ICE Futures U.S., a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), said Tuesday it will change electronic trading hours for certain agricultural futures and options contracts. (more)

Companies That Hide Bad News Face Suspension, U.K.'s FSA Says
Publicly traded companies that hide bad news risk having their shares suspended, the U.K.'s market regulator said today as part of its bid to combat market abuse. (more)

Upcoming Events

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Is Algo Trading Within Your Grasp?
Dec. 3-4, 2008
Chicago
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Is Algo Trading Within Your Grasp?
Dec. 8-9, 2008
New York
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Futures & Options Course/Series 3 Exam Course
Dec. 8-9, 2008
Chicago
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Introduction to Exchange-Traded Futures & Options
Dec. 16, 2008
New York, NY
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Futures & Options Course/Series 3 Exam Course
Dec. 16-17, 2008
New York, NY
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Understanding Credit Derivatives
Jan. 12-13, 2009
Chicago
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Financial Risk Blueprints for Hedgers
Jan. 27-28, 2009
New York
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MFA's Network 2009
Feb. 8-10, 2009
Key Biscayne, Florida
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Trading Strategies & Tactics for Speculators
Feb. 9-10, 2009
Chicago
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Introduction to Exchange-Traded Futures & Options
Feb. 12, 2009
Chicago
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Is Algo Trading Within Your Grasp
Feb. 18-19, 2009
NYMEX - New York, NY
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Understanding Credit Derivatives
Feb. 24-25, 2009
New York, NY
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Introduction to Exchange-Traded Futures & Options
Feb. 26, 2009
New York, NY
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25th Annual CBOE Risk Management Conference
March 8-10, 2009
Laguna Niguel, California
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34th Annual FIA International Futures Industry Conference
March 11-14, 2009
Boca Raton, Florida
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18th Annual FIA Futures Services Division OpTech Conference
Apr. 7, 2009
Battery Park, New York
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Is Algo Trading Within Your Grasp?
Apr. 28-29, 2009
NYMEX - New York, NY
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31st Annual FIA Conference on the Regulation of Futures, Derivatives and OTC Products
May 13-15, 2009
National Harbor, Maryland
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India Summit 2009
May 19-20, 2009
Grosvenor Square, London
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