Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

Derivatives are financial instruments that derive their value from one or more underlying financial assets. Learn more about the types of derivatives and the pros and cons of investing. Financial ...

Despite what Wall Street may have you believe, Congress needs to establish speed limits and traffic lights to improve derivative safety, write David Min and Pat Garofalo. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) ...

Crypto’s spot trading markets are simple. Buy or sell bitcoin at the market price, whenever and wherever you want, no funny business. However, yet more money can be made (or lost) through derivatives ...