While Greenspan Slept

This Bloomberg special report may have slipped by unnoticed last week during all of the market mayhem ... of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to study regulating over-the-counter derivatives. In 2000, Congress ... on a company's debt, would grow to $62 trillion from $631 billion in 2001. While the swaps spread risk [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 11:00:00

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CBOT Limits Ag Receipts Held by Non-Grain Companies to Improve Performance of Hedging

In response to pressure over the last year, the CBOT has responded to requests from its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, ... are the parameters below:Commodity - LimitCorn shipping certificates - 600*Soybean shipping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 02:59:00

Reliance-MTN Deal Offers an Opportunity for Private Equity

The proposed share-swap deal between India’s Reliance Communications and MTN Group of South Africa could throw up one of the biggest deals so far ... , a local commodities and futures exchange, and Bovespa Holding, the publicly traded company [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 10:35:16

Senate Republicans Block Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil Companies

... work on separate legislation to increase oversight of trading by the Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 19:50:46

CME Owners Bracing For Earnings (CME)

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. The futures and commodities exchange giant estimates (from First Call) are $3.98 EPS and $644.3 million in revenues. Exchanges and financial companies do not offer guidance, but next quarter [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 14:47:34

Carbon Trading: A $64 Billion Economy And Growing

Josh Margolis keeps a grueling schedule, brokering deals between buyers and sellers and forecasting how government actions could affect his clients ... company CantorCO2e, Margolis is part of an exploding branch of finance in a new commodity: carbon ... going to have a carbon trading system in the near future.” He notes that the president-elect supports [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 06:59:27

HOT POSNER | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog Constant ABC presence Rupert Posner takes a break from hanging by the pool in tropical Poland to chat ... available under any future trading system introduced by President-elect Barack Obama. Bankers are broadly ... that could grow into the largest commodity market in the world. Heavily emitting companies [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 21:19:59

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings

Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... on energy trading activities focused on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces. The Company has four principal subsidiaries [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:03:08

Stocks in Europe, Asia Decline, Led by Banks; U.S. Futures Fall

By Adam Haigh Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Stocks in Europe and Asia declined for a second day, ... analysts who study charts of trading patterns. Stocks in Europe and futures on the S&P 500 recouped ... led by commodity producers and financial companies on concern the deepening recession will erode [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:44:57

Carbon Trading: Crisis In Waiting

Posted by lobotero on 3 December, 2008 The plan, at first glance, seems simplicity itself: by charging companies for the right to emit CO2, ... the birth of the greatest and most complex commodity market the world has seen. Last year alone, permits worth more than £55 billion were traded on the world’s carbon markets – but future trading [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 07:36:17

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