Some highlights from Monday’s FTfm.
Few curbs on ETPs despite food crisis
The largest providers of exchange traded products that invest in agricultural commodities have no plans to withdraw these instruments in spite of fears that soaring prices for corn, wheat and soyabeans will lead to a repetition of the 2007/08 global food crisis. Read more
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 21 2013 16:35 |
6,804 | +48.24 | +0.7% | 6,804 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 21 2013 17:15 |
1,253 | +1.13 | +0.1% | 1,253 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 21 2013 05:00 |
1,669 | +2.87 | +0.2% | 1,675 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 22 2013 00:19 |
1.29 | 0.00 | +0.1% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 22 2013 05:39 |
103.56 | -0.35 | -0.3% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 21 2013 23:15 |
1,378 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 1,795 |
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2Secret liquidity and Scottish independence
3Spain's awful unemployment
4S&P 2,100, by Goldman Sachs
5Pump up, debase
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