ICE Extends Launch Date of Electronic Trading of NYBOT Soft Commodities to January 26.
ATLANTA, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange , the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodities exchange, will extend the start date of side-by-side trading at its New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) subsidiary by one week to accommodate demand for electronic trading enrollment and training. Side-by-side trading of the...

Traders seek nod for evening trade.
Byline: NIDHI SHARMA MUMBAI: Traders and commodity exchanges have asked the market regulator, Forward Market Commission, to allow evening trading in internationally linked agri commodities like edible oil complex. "With increased participation in edible oil and oilseed complex by the industry, the timing is right to introduce...

NYBOT Announces Appointment of Thomas W. Farley as President and COO.
ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange , the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodities exchange, and its regulated subsidiary, the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), announced today that Thomas W. Farley has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of the NYBOT, effective February...

NYBOT Board of Directors Appointed.
Fred W. Hatfield Joins Board ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange , the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodities exchange, announced today the appointment of a new Board of Directors for the New York Board of Trade. The NYBOT board is made up...

Farmers may have better options.
PUNE: The NCDEX is ready to provide farmers the facility of 'options', once Parliament approves changes in the Securities Contract Regulation. The new instrument will give farmers the right, though not the obligation, to review a contract at the time of maturity. Currently, commodity exchanges can offer...

NYBOT Softs Exceed 12,000 Contracts on First Day of Trading on the ICE Platform.
ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange , the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodities exchange, and its regulated subsidiary, the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), announced the successful launch of side-by- side trading for the NYBOT's physical soft commodity contracts, with more than 12,000...

Textile stocks take a beating as cotton prices rise.
Byline: M Allirajan COIMBATORE: The great Indian textile story might have made everyone talking about it as the most happening sector. But the performance of textile stocks on the bourses is nothing to cheer about. At a time when the sensex and Nifty are scaling...

Weather, spurious seeds hit cotton yield in Gujarat.
Byline: Bhargav Trivedi AHMEDABAD: Even as the Gujarat government is beaming with high cotton crop production, the crop's productivity has gone down. Poor weather conditions, pests and spurious seeds have taken their toll on the crop the state prides itself in. According to the agriculture directorate, productivity...

Rising food prices hurt consumers hard.
Byline: Nidhi Nath Srinivas NEW DELHI: January has been a sizzler for world food prices. Everything from vegetable oils to coffee to sugar became more expensive. For a food trading country such as India, that is a mixed blessing. Indian exporters of coffee, rice, tea,...

Duty cuts, export curbs on food products to rein in prices.
NEW DELHI: The government went into a huddle late on Monday evening with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh convening a meeting of the cabinet committee on prices to decide on fiscal measures to rein in inflation, which is threatening to give the UPA regime a full-blown political headache. ...