Introduction to Markets:
o Commodity Futures - http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/cfutures.html
o Americas Currencies - http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies/americas_currencies.html
o Energy Prices - http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/energyprices.html
o Commodities - http://news.ft.com/markets/commodities/daily (requires acrobat reader)
o Foreign exchange graph - http://www.economist.com/markets/currency/graphs.cfm
o Active Futures - http://money.cnn.com/markets/commodities.html
Questions for students to think about:
· What is being traded on the market you are looking at?
· Who do you think the buyers and the sellers would be ?
· Why might they be buying and selling these items?
· Some of these markets are 'futures' markets - what do you think this means?
· What has happened to the price in the markets that you are looking at?
· Why do you think the price might have changed?
· How would you define market?
· List all the different types of market you can think of.