Social Media and the Futures Industry
Yesterday, the Futures Industry Association hosted an event in Chicago on the effects of social media in our industry. The concept of social media is not new to futures world. In fact, from the...
View ArticleQ&A: How Market Participants are Using Social Media
Social media is becoming a critical listening post for investors and traders who are looking for early signals on market direction. The volume of traffic on networks such as Facebook and Twitter is...
View ArticleThe Top 50 Twitter Feeds in Finance
We’re very happy to be named one of 50 must-follow Twitter feeds in finance by the Wall Street Journal’s MoneyBeat blog. The blog posted their list this week, and it includes feeds from some top...
View ArticleThe New Information Paradigm
The explosive growth of the digital world appears to have a further upside as new information technologies – and their social and professional applications – continue to unfold in ways most of us have...
View ArticleSocial Agriculture
Farmers seeking the latest information on prices and crop conditions are more likely to check their Twitter feed before calling their broker as social media plays a bigger role in how producers are...
View ArticleSocial Media On The Farm
Nightly Business Report featured a story last night from Diane Eastabrook, who explored how farmers are using social media to communicate what’s happening on their farms with agricultural market...
View ArticleOpenSource: How Social Media is Transforming the Financial Community
Welcome to OpenSource – our new feature on OpenMarkets where we discuss technology and innovation with thought leaders and the various ways information, data and platforms are influencing financial...
View ArticleFrom NBC to Twitter: Is it Healthier to Get News Online?
The shift in news consumption to digital platforms continues at a rapid pace. On this everyone can agree. Active Twitter users have grown from 10 million in Q1 2010 to 307 million by the end of Q3...
View ArticleFacebook and Twitter Have Changed News. Now What?
As “fake news” became a buzzword — in fact, one dictionary’s word of the year — it also brought up several issues about the trust people place in sources of news, primarily news distributed on social...
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