The fast moving consumer goods companies are gambling on inflation with new product launches. Though the runaway rise in prices-with inflation romancing 13%-has come as a spoilsport, companies are going ahead with product launches planned months before.

Just like any other topic under the sun nowadays, casino gambling is discussed endlessly on Internet message boards. Online, players gather to swap stories about wins, losses, restaurants, rooms and comps, report on their latest trips and trade strategy t

New federal rules are needed to protect futures prediction markets from excessive regulation so they can continue to develop as innovative planning tools, according to an article co-written by two Univer-sity of Iowa business professors and prediction mar

Proprietary trading firms, which deal in options and futures with their private funds, are relatively anonymous but influential With computers leading an exodus of bodies from exchange floors, highly-secretive prop shops are setting much of the agenda

*** The American consumer is slowing down - and no one knows what to make of it…what would happen if the Fed chief actually gave it to Americans straight?