The concept of commodity futures is not new in India. However commodity futures trading in India remained in a state of hibernation for four decades, which was market by suspicion on the benefits of futures trading. This is now replaced by policy, institutional and market activism in the last...

Since commodity “futures” trading was permitted in 2003, the commodity derivative market in India has witnessed phenomenal growth. Though the volume of commodity futures trade increased exponentially since its launch in 2003, the functioning of the futures market came under scrutiny during...

The global economy is yet to recover from the worst crisis witnessed since post World War II. The world trade is projected to contract by 2.8% in 2009, which is an alarming indication. Indian economy too has been hurt to some extent by the global financial crisis. The stock markets, financial...