CHICAGO, July 27, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- INTL FCStone Inc. (Nasdaq:INTL) today announced that it will be presenting an international commodity outlook conference in London, the first in what is planned to be an annual series of conferences in that city.
The INTL FCStone International Commodity Outlook Conference, sponsored by the CME Group, will be held October 20 and 21, 2011.
The conference will present economists, analysts and risk managers covering the global production and price outlook for food commodities across the globe, including grains and oilseeds, coffee, sugar and cocoa products. The conference will cover developments in U.S. and EU regulatory policies, the state of the art in systems trading, and market movers such as energy, interest rates, currencies, and global weather.
The conference is designed to help participants in the agribusiness and biofuels industries, as well as investors who view commodities as an asset class, foresee global supply and demand issues and their likely impact on the prices of raw commodities and finished goods.
Among the confirmed speakers at the conference are internationally recognized grains analyst Doug Jackson from INTL FCStone; Jose Miguel Palacio, Director of Financial Operations for Aserca; FCStone Europe's Jaime Nolan-Miralles, a frequent guest on CNBC and a recognized authority on European wheat; and meteorologist and astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, owner of the London-based weather forecasting firm Weather Action.
The INTL FCStone International Commodity Outlook Conference will be held at the May Fair Hotel, in London's West End.
The formal agenda of the conference, and a complete list of confirmed speakers, will be released shortly. To register for the conference, or for more information, please visit www.intlfcstone.com or contact Erin Olson at erin.olson@intlfcstone.com or +515-273-4051.
About INTL FCStone Inc.
INTL FCStone Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides execution and advisory services in commodities, currencies and international securities. INTL FCStone's subsidiaries, which include the commodities advisory and transaction execution firm FCStone Group, serve more than 10,000 commercial customers in more than 100 countries through a network of offices in eleven countries around the world. Further information on INTL FCStone Inc. is available at www.intlfcstone.com.
About CME Group
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