(Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds ramped up bearish yen wagers by the most in over a decade last week as investors weighed the prospects of a snap Japanese election and its implication on fiscal policy.

Equities have been far less volatile than almost everything else so far this year, with bigger swings racing through the ...

The ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Crude Oil ETF targets 2x daily returns of the Bloomberg Commodity Balanced WTI Crude Oil Index. SCO is strictly a short-term trading vehicle; holding beyond one day ...

This article was written by Jim Wiederhold, Commodity Indices Product Manager at Bloomberg. Although gold is the largest single commodity futures contract, crude oil reaches the 15% single commodity ...

Chocolate lovers, beware. Cocoa prices may be set for a rebound at the start of the new year as the commodity is added to a key index. The inclusion of New York cocoa futures in the Bloomberg ...

China has announced plans to open futures markets for 14 commodities, including lithium carbonate and nickel, to foreign ...

Farmers grow wheat and sell it to millers who use it to make flour. Sometimes a farmer wants to lock in a price for her wheat before the harvest, so she will sell wheat futures on a commodity futures ...