Nikkei to Cash, Gold Bearish

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Date: 2008-10-24 20:33:00

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Broker, Foreign Exchange Transactions

by Jay Visaya There are a lot of forex brokers to choose from ... with the Commission’s future and the merchants and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations ... to an actual capital, is an amount of money a broker will lend you for trading. Make sure the broker [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 19:02:42

More Top Economic Appointees

More Top Economic Appointees By Helene Cooper CHICAGO—President-elect Barack Obama is naming two former Clinton administration economic ... to Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... and Exchange Commission, at a press conference in Chicago Thursday morning. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 15:52:17

The Woman Who Could Have Prevented This Financial Mess Was Silenced by Greenspan, Rubin and Summers

By Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com. Posted October 11, 2008 ... of, Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — a federal agency that regulates options and futures trading — was the oracle whose warnings about the dangerous boom in derivatives [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 15:13:00

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

The gas legislation we pass

By Kate Sheppard The House of Representatives took up a triumvirate of environment and energy-related bills today, ... Futures Trading Commission to exert tougher oversight of the oil futures markets. In a 402-19 vote ... or unreasonable fluctuations" in energy futures prices and trading activities that "prevent [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 00:13:20

GATA Meets with CFTC

Bill Murphy, chairman of GATA (Gold Anti Trust Action Committee) ... of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, this news hit the tape: “Obama to appoint Gary Gensler to lead Commodities Futures Trading Commission — AP.” Gensler is a former undersecretary [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 22:02:43

Obama goes after McCain, oil speculation

by John McCormick Sen. Barack Obama's campaign went on the offensive again today on energy related matters, charging that a co-chairman for Sen ... said the provision in law exempts some energy traders from regulation and thus prevents the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from fully overseeing the oil futures market and investigating cases [more...]

Date: 2008-06-22 18:55:46

SIPC: Lehman To Be Liquidated

How did this little gem slip by unnoticed? Tomorrow at 4PM, Lehman is to be liquidated ... of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... in connection with a proposed sale of the business of the broker-dealer to Barclays Capital Inc. A hearing [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 05:00:00

Obama to name SEC nominee Thursday, sources say

From Brianna Keilar, Ed Henry and Jessica Yellin CNN CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) ... Futures Trading Commission and Dan Tarullo to fill one of the vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board ... as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1994 during the Clinton Administration [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:33:15

What if it's all a Ponzi scheme -- more

Earlier, I grew depressed thinking that the reason all that bailout money wasn't helping right the economy was that the whole thing was a vast Ponzi ... this one is smaller.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil charges against a Pennsylvania man accused of running a $50 million Ponzi scheme [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:47:00

THE ONION CONUNDRUM

Before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission starts scrutinizing the role that speculators may have played in driving up fuel and food prices, investigators may want to take a look at price swings a commodity not in today's news: onions, says Fortune magazine.Onions are the only commodity for which futures trading is banned. Back [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 13:14:56

Obama to name SEC nominee Thursday, sources say

From Brianna Keilar, Ed Henry and Jessica Yellin CNN CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) ... . She is a former SEC commissioner and served as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... and Exchange Commission at a news conference Thursday, according to a senior Democratic official [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:38:34

Veteran regulator Mary Schapiro tapped to lead SEC - MarketWatch

Obama picks Mary Schapiro for SEC chief -Former Goldman Sachs official Gensler to head CFTC By Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch Last update: 2:27 p.m ... and former Treasury undersecretary Gary Gensler to run the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which regulates trading in the commodities markets. 'Financial regulatory reform will be a top priority [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:04:20

Networks Ignore Bush Speech on Domestic Policy

President George W. Bush delivered an address on domestic policy issues as the conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), while President-elect Barack Obama named his picks for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Reserve Board and Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — all the major networks [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:06:15

DC’s Cosa Nostra

Judah Freed of examiner.com writes~ “Obama last week tapped Mary Schapiro to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ... Gensler to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Instability in the commodities markets ... financial advisor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Gensler has not yet shown to critics [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 06:54:25

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

Cheney lies, Obama is wrong, Paul gets it right

While Vice President Dick Cheney uses his final days to tell lies:During an interview Thursday with The Associated Press in his West Wing office, ... the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission into a super-regulator [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 02:53:00

Other Markets (2)

Most of these exchanges operate on basically the same principle as the stock exchanges, ... of futures, for example, is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rather than ... , today’s computers and dedicated financial media are so broad that information on any [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 08:43:51

FACTBOX: Major U.S. financial oversight agencies face reforms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Obama administration looks likely to shake up the federal agencies that regulate the U.S ... auditors. About 3,500 employees. Formed in 1934. * Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Oversees commodity and financial futures. About 490 employees. Formed in 1974. (Reporting by Kevin Drawbaugh [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 23:44:40

Federalized Deregulatory Corporate Law

Since the country’s founding, states have fashioned most of the regulatory landscape for the incorporation and supervision of ... to self-regulatory organizations along lines that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is famous ... corporation charter could begin the transformation, perhaps followed in future years by mandatory [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 14:23:42

Obama picks signal tighter market oversight

[ President-elect Barack Obama, right, announces more members to his economic team, left to right, Securities Exchange Commission chairman- designate, Mary Schapiro, Commodities Futures Trading Commission chairman-designate Gary Gensler and Federal Reserve Board of Governors- designate Daniel [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 00:49:42

Perspective- We Ain’t Got It.

Obama’s presser: I am fierce advocate for equality for gay and—well, let me start by talking about my own views ... of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, to serve as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He appointed former Treasury official Gary Gensler to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:26:05

Oil executives: "What do they know?"

The spectacle of an industry lobbyist decrying the prospects of increased regulation is very much dog-bites-man, as far as news value goes ... of the Futures Industry Association, in a five-minute video snippet produced by the Financial Times ... Futures Trading Commission staffer Michael Greenberger, the United States currently allows exchanges owned [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 14:58:36

The case for oil price speculation improves

U.C. San Diego economist Jim Hamilton has long argued that fundamental forces of supply and demand explain oil prices better than "speculation ... by David Cho, "A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading." Hamilton closed his dissection ... recently deemed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to be more of a speculator than [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 16:28:48

Vultures

Nothing to see here, just move along: Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol’s books last month, it found that the firm was in fact [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 14:42:10

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

Oil Speculators. WP: Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... of fuel. Even more surprising to the commodities markets was the massive size of Vitol's portfolio [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 13:45:50

Crisis Yields Turnabout by SEC Chair

In a speech Wednesday at the Practising Law Institute’s program on securities regulation, the historically arch-conservative, ... Services Regulatory Reform. 2. Merging the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission “with a clear ... , including by Treasury, although Mr. Cox again signals an urgency and muscularity that differs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 22:25:15

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

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

Study Shows Speculators Helped LOWER Oil Prices

It was said to be the year of speculators gone wild ... , the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has offered hard statistical data that financial trading hasn't ... -month period. In other words, index traders and swap dealers were driving the future price of oil [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 15:39:38

Permalink | THURSDAY NEWS UPDATE. GOP CONGRESSMAN TO BE TRANSPORTATION SECY; BROWNBACK ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT (AGAIN) ... -- previously served as Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair during the Clinton Administration. Also ... . Obama will also name Mary Schapiro as new Securities & Exchange Commission Chairwoman [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 04:53:33

Obama Appoints Mary Schapiro

Barack Obama has named Financial Industry Regulatory Authority chief executive Mary Schapiro as chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Schapiro is a former SEC commissioner who also headed the commodity futures trading commission and is now the head of Finra, which inspects U.S. brokerage firms, writes rules for those selling [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 17:47:01

Congrats to Mary Schapiro, SEC Chair Nominee

US President-elect Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Mary Schapiro as Chair of the Securities and Exchange ... Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Before that, Schapiro served for six years as a Commissioner ... Commission. We at GW Law School, from which Ms. Schaprio graduated in 1980, are delighted. We wish [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 17:16:36

Sex and Money: Are Women Different?

Sex and Money: Are Women Different? Dean Baker, writing in TruthOut “It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women. Brooksley Born, as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Clinton, wanted to regulate credit default swaps [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:23:25

Sex and Money: Are Women Regulators Different?

It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women. Brooksley Born, as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Clinton, wanted to regulate credit default swaps and other derivative instruments back in the late 90s [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 06:15:45

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

Shocker: Federal Regulators Conclude That Oil Speculators Not Responsible For High Gas Prices

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released financial data indicating that commodities traders engaged in oil speculation have had little ... driving the future price of oil down. Commodity index funds also have a much smaller share ... of transactions worth billions of dollars between January and June of this year. Commodity futures [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 14:50:11

President Bush Threatens Veto of Poison-pill Laden Drilling Bill; Oil Falls to $90/bbl

—Gabriel Malor So far, Republicans have managed not to cave on offshore drilling (though ANWR seems to be out of the question) ... . In related news, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission actually looked through the data ... the six-month period. In other words, index traders and swap dealers were driving the future price [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 14:55:10

From Clueless Cox to Something Else Schapiro: Meet the Future SEC Chairman

Christopher Cox may in retrospect look like an Aristotelian fountain of wisdom, ... of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as a Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission. She is currently a director of Kraft Foods Inc. Her stint at the CFTC during the Clinton [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 02:47:58

MORE BUSH? TAKE McCAIN-- A CHANGE FROM BUSH'S FAILED AGENDA? BARACK'S THE ONLY CHOICE

Yes, my son, Dick here will keep you on the straight and narrow when it comes to that boring economic crap A few days ago I had the misfortune to ... -- energy speculation. Etheridge's proposal allow the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to hire 100 employees and grant the CFTC more authority over the trading of U.S. energy commodities on overseas [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 12:45:00

Laissez-faire leads to nationalization

By Ron Beasley The Republicans, including until this week John McCain, ... , one Clinton appointee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Brooksley Born, did attempt to bring derivatives trading under the CFTC's regulatory ambit, but she was shot down [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 03:15:10

The Real Election Trading

For the last few days traders have been talking about whether the equity market is “discounting” a win by Senator Barack Obama (D ... Futures Trading Commission, according to Tom Snee, spokesman for the IEM. (Intrade is an unregulated ... near as liquid as even the more thinly-traded commodities, that doesn’t mean there isn’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 17:32:29

The Real Election Trading

For the last few days traders have been talking about whether the equity market is “discounting” a win by Senator Barack Obama (D ... Futures Trading Commission, according to Tom Snee, spokesman for the IEM. (Intrade is an unregulated ... near as liquid as even the more thinly-traded commodities, that doesn’t mean there isn’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 20:25:00

Obama to name woman as new head of SEC

The Obama transition's leaky pipe says that the chief executive officer of the Financial Industries Regulatory Authority, Mary Schapiro, ... commissioner. Schapiro also headed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The announcement is expected ... shop in July 2007. It the largest non-governmental regulatory organization for securities brokers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 00:12:47

Financial Spreads: Oil Slick, Bonds Stick And Pounding Sterling

SPREAD Watch: Anorak’s look at the financial spread markets BUY much last month? The Office For National Statistics ( ... on this year’s highs. Meanwhile, US regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission allege ... s civil complaint, traders said they would “hammer” [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 09:34:38

Closing Enron Loophole Would Drop Oil Prices 25% - 50% Overnight

The way Republicans tell it, the minute we start drilling off the coasts of California, Florida and elsewhere, the price of gas will go down ... for the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC), the government board that oversees commodities markets: “Yes ... follows.) The Enron Loophole is the nickname for a provision written into the [more...]

Date: 2008-06-22 18:55:04

More speculation about those oil speculators

I normally leave it to folks like Dean Baker to beat up on the press ... their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol's books last month ... in oil and a number of other commodity markets. The CFTC separates the holders of those contracts [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 04:02:06

Don't Blame the Speculators; Without Futures Markets, Oil Might Be At $200 Instead of $135

Excerpts below from the Fortune Magazine article "Don't Blame the Oil Speculators: ... former U.S. Commodities Futures Trade Commission chief economist Gerald Gay. "No, they're clueless ... Misunderstanding of How Futures Markets Work": Here's a suggestion: The next time a Congressional committee [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 02:03:05

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