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 ...

A derivative is a financial instrument that derives its value from an underlying asset. The underlying asset can be equity, currency, commodities, or interest rate. Thus, a change in the underlying ...

Derivative value depends on the assets such as stocks, commodities, currency or indexes. These contracts are mostly applied in hedging, speculative trading, and to increase portfolio ...

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