CNBC On Speculators Gone Wild: ‘So What?’

Yesterday, the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Dan Weiss stood up for working American families as CNBC host Trish Regan and two other ... Futures Trading Commission released a report recommending specific improvements to commodities markets ... months from January to May traders poured $60 billion into the commodities market and basically per [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 23:30:34

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Green Ink: Detroit Gets Greener, Will Jobs?

paper Crude futures peeked above $100 on rebounding stock markets and signs of financial-market stability, Bloomberg reports ... markets, the WSJ reports (sub reqd.), with question marks over commodities trades made with Lehman [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 12:18:37

Media Digest 1/1/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg (GM)(C)(IBM)(TWX)(VIA)(WFC)

According to Reuters, Wall St. closed its worst year since The Depression ... of the US financial stock index dropped 57% last year. The FT reports that the commodities markets ... giant Gazprom has cut deliveries to the Ukraine The New York Times reports that US markets lost [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 10:40:54

WALL STREET CLOSES OUT 2008 WITH LIGHT GAINS

BY KEN SWEET As Wall Street prepares to close out its worst year since the Great Depression, stocks posted light gains Wednesday after traders got a labor market report that came in better ... of Christmas. In the commodity markets, oil gained $2.29 to $41.34 a barrel in New York while gold [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:43:54

Size Does Matter- It helps to survive the market

by singapore trader reports The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... - that is, determining how much money you will risk on any single given trade - to the overall ... same time? It is all about position-sizing - how much money you are willing to bet on each trade [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 04:05:22

Baruch College’s Schwartz Institute Featured in Higher Education Magazine Change-’Improving Communication is Everyone’s Responsibility’ by Fara Warner

In 2003, Terrence Martell, a finance professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, encountered a classroom of 80 seniors who could navigate the complex intricacies of the futures markets and commodities trading. But when he asked them to write a report explaining to a commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:12:05

Oil Squeeze? Blame Yourself

The Journal’s Russell Gold reports: When it comes to the price of crude oil and gasoline, who is in the driver’s seat? One common answer is no one ... into the commodity futures market. All of this plays a role: the availability of supply, financial market interest in commodities, and don’t forget the strength of the U.S. dollar (the global [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 18:43:00

Who let the oil market be manipulated?

For anyone who believes that speculation by energy traders explains at least a portion of the run-up in oil prices, the announcement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating oil market ... some commodity trading exchanges to operate without oversight while others must report what's going [more...]

Date: 2008-05-30 15:51:47

“Housing Markets Will Roar Back in 2009”

At dire times like these, we can all use a laugh or two. So our  thanks to the author of the report, “Housing Markets Will Roar Back in 2009 ... bubble’, commodity prices lower, tax credits available for homebuyers, and the government eager ... in late 2009 once price appreciation kicks in.” Let us then ignore two stories in the news: Mortgage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:07:52

The Worm Turns, and Fertilizer Stocks Suffer

Rob Curran has this report on the recent stumbles of the market’s favored high-fliers. Remember the rally in commodity and agricultural stocks that would never end because the world ... traders took cover from the second-quarter sell-off, have flipped into the loser column in the first [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 16:18:07

Putin’s Deguello

Streetwise Professor reports on Vladimir Putin’s “deguello*”:The island of stability theme is now longer operative ... with the world economy–through the commodity markets, most notably the oil market (as a seller) and the grain ... from Russian hands.Some things are somewhat changed.  Today, international investors and currency traders [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 10:05:33

SPECULATORS ARE NOT DRIVING UP OIL PRICES, REPORT SAYS

As Congress debates how to curtail the role of speculators and rein in rising oil prices, ... report by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with help from six other agencies, including ... offer investors a future return linked to commodity markets, were roughly balanced between purchases [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 13:21:56

Commodity Bulls Jump The Shark

The GlobeAndMail is reporting on The Real Reason Commodities Are Tumbling. To hear Donald Coxe tell it, the commodity selloff ripping through Canada's stock market is no accident. It is the result of a deliberate, brilliantly executed plan hatched at the highest levels [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 05:42:38

Wednesday links: quant comedown

Is trading against the trend worth the risk?  (MarketSci Blog) What now for quants?  (Market Movers) The VIX was never all that accurate.  ( ... .  (Daily Options Report) One attempt at a lazy, ETF-heavy, retirement portfolio.  (Infectious Greed ... market?  (Bespoke) What effect has the commodity index re-balancing had on the markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:53:19

Apple Rally Stalls, and Stuff

In the course of performing my technical analysis of AAPL day-to-day price movements, I never do it with blinders on ... with an examination of market futures and pre-market economic reports. And includes a broad analysis ... to one another, from airlines to utilities, from health care to commodities, to energy and financials [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 04:51:12

The Momentum Crowd Runs Into Biotech

Rob Curran reports: If Herman Melville were around today, he might be working for Pequod, ... and making gung-ho bets on biotech stocks. Market participants say stock and commodity markets increasingly follow a bunch of adventurers known as “momentum,” or “momo,” traders. Once a sector [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 09:22:00

Safe Harbor for Prediction Markets?

As everyone who has read The Wisdom of the Crowds knows, prediction markets are excellent predictors of future events like elections ... Professor John McGinnis reports, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is recognizing the benefits ... , exempting them from cumbersome financial trading laws. As McGinnis argues, creating such an exception would [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 19:29:49

It's Not The Cheese That Costs so Much

I admit that I can still be astonished. When I watched '60 Minutes' last night I saw a big surprise report that I was right all along about oil ... the commodities futures market. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, it's traded alongside cotton [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:28:09

Oil Under $60 and Gasoline Approaching $2/Gallon. Gas Guzzlers Set for a Comeback?

Commodities markets are on an even wilder roller-coaster ride than the stock market and crude oil is leading the retreat ... . The AP reports that Thursday’s hit of inter-day low of $54.67 / barrel and closed at $58.24. That there is almost 2/3rds down from the summer’s near $150 peak. TFC Commodity Charts publishes ... [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 12:21:02

Daily Report for Mon, Oct 27, 2008

The crisis in global equity, commodity and currency markets worsened overnight ... ) as an indicator. US equity futures have come off their earlier lows. ADDENDUM Links & Charts ... is sinking as are prices on the European bourses; the US equity markets may open with futures locked [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 10:13:05

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

Four at Four: Santa Rides Off

So long, Santa Claus. The vaunted Santa Claus rally, which failed so miserably at the end of 2007 and into 2008, was better this year, ... , and commodity markets did better. A similar dynamic was observed for IntercontinentalExchange, which reported [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:47:00

Nickel Mining Production : African Eagle Cuts Cost at Dutwa Nickel Project

Miningweekly.com reported that, in a bid to conserve cash and steer the company through the current period of economic turmoil, ... markets and commodity prices. Mr John Park chairperson of African Eagle Resources said that the company ... from our 2007 Johannesburg listing and financing, but we recognize the need to conserve these funds. This will mean [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 07:49:52

CFTC Report on High Oil Prices - "Speculation My A$$"

With a pending Senate vote on the "Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act", it seems that we (not the TOD 'we', but the collective society 'we') ... . In this report, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), threw cold water on the recent ... , activity on the crude oil futures market – as measured by the number of contracts outstanding, trading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 14:47:59

ONN.tv's Mark2Market: CME Trader Peter Yastrow Describes Today's Massive Central Bank Actions to Keep Money Flowing

CHICAGO-(Business Wire)-September 18, 2008 - Mark2Market, ONN.tv's newest programming on futures and commodities, goes to the CME/CBOT trading floors every morning for special reports on financial markets and currency trading. On Thursday morning's edition [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 11:58:00

Weekly Market Update Report

January 7, 2009DairyCHEESE: Barrels closed at $1.1300 and 40# blocks at $1.1325. The weekly average for barrels is $1.2283 (-.1059) and blocks, $1 ... steady early in the week, but declined by 1 cent on the last trading day of the year at the CME ... session block daily close at $1.1325, just above the CCC (Commodity Credit Corporation) government [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:10:00

Obama Hates Oil Speculators, Hearts Ethanol

Bloomberg reports that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is proposing new rules to increase government interven... err... oversight in energy markets. He wants to "require the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate trading in energy futures contracts and direct the commission to investigate ways [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 16:04:51

Oil Is Rising, But Volume Is Low

Carolyn Cui has this report on what’s happening in the oil market ... ,” said Raymond Carbone, president of Paramount Options Inc. When oil surged $11 on June 6th ... be hesitant to build positions since it’s a Friday, said Victor Sperandeo, a veteran commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 16:05:05

McCain Aide Created 'Enron Loophole'

Editor's Note: On Wednesday evening, Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's "Countdown," reported the findings of a "Countdown investigation" ... its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron ... into the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that exempted from regulation energy trading on electronic [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 14:00:00

delhistockclub Antique-Sun Sets On Oil, Negative for Reliance, Cairn, Selan, Gail & Ongc

Please find enclosed our Oil & Gas sector report 'Sun sets on oil era' covering Indian upstream companies ... prices, since with falling commodity prices and increased availability of contractors, capital costs ... . Key highlights:•        Contrary to market expectations, we believe that oil prices to remain [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:05:00

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