DrumBeat: October 24, 2008
Heating Oil Distributors Fear Tough Winter Amid Credit Freeze NEW YORK (Dow Jones) ... been our view that the value of commodities, including oil, should be determined in open, competitive [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 12:30:39
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Can Mary Schapiro Save the S.E.C.?
Can Mary Schapiro Save the S.E.C.? Mary Schapiro, a veteran and diligent regulator if ever there was one, ... Trading Commission as a staff member in the early 1980s, then became a member of the S.E.C. ... is Barack Obama’s choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is a choice [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 00:47:19
Wall Street Says Thanks
Wall Street Says Thanks I wish I had written this myself. Instead, Barry Ritholtz wrote this in the new Barron’s. ( ... off the futures exchanges, with minimal oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [more...]
Date: 2008-09-27 23:54:25
DrumBeat: August 21, 2008
All the Oil We Need The world actually has enormous spare oil capacity. It has simply moved ... the U.S. and Poland bolstered concern that Russia may disrupt the flow of oil. Energy and metals futures also [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 05:09:43
What are Cfds (contracts for Difference)
What Are CFDs Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are contracts between a trader and a CFD provider, who will at the close of the contract, exchange the difference between the opening price and the closing price of the underlying index, share, commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 02:00:55
Stock Market Dictionary - G
GLThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for GREENLAND.GNPSee: Gross National ProductGMThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for GAMBIA ... floor of the NYSE, which is situated on the north side of the main trading floor.GarbatrageRising [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:38:00
60 Minutes: Speculation Affected Oil Price Swings More Than Supply And Demand
so much for the theories of free market and supply & demand......Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings? ... , a commodity that was theoretically priced according to supply and demand doubled from $69 a barrel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 01:43:00
The Shadows Behind The Scenes
Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse Michel ChossudovskyGlobal ResearchMonday, Nov 10, ... which are the recipients of the bailout money– are also the brokers and underwriters of the US public [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 00:20:00
CFD Providers- Australia
CFD Providers- Australia Posted By Singapore Trader Report on @ 10:35 am by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 10:35:39
CFD Providers- Australia
CFD Providers- Australia Posted By Singapore Trader Report on @ 10:28 am by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 10:28:02
The Business Pundit Energy Plan: Electrification, flex power, and a smart grid
By now, 99% of us are aware of the problem. Cheap oil, whether due to peak oil or not, is over ... to a more sustainable future. 3. Section [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 21:08:14
What is all this CFD HYPE: CFDs Explained
By Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... . The leverage and ability to short sell gives power and flexibility. Unlike futures, CFDs [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 21:37:06
FINRA, Madoff, and Obama's SEC choice
"Mary Schapiro, Barack Obama's choice to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, previously appointed one of Bernard Madoff's sons to a regulatory body that oversees US securities firms [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 19:15:40
CFDs-United Kingdom
by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 10:28:29
CFD Providers- Who is the best
by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 10:17:03
CFDs-Australia
by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 22:01:45
CFDs- Singapore
by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 10:05:43
CFDs- Singapore
by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 10:15:47
contracts for difference- CFDs Explained
by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 09:56:30
Tom Harkin set to put some of Humpty Dumpty back together.
Credit default swaps, heralded by Phil Gramm as a necessary and innovative new way in which risk can be passed off onto unwary suckers (paraphrase) ... jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission: WASHINGTON — Senate Agriculture Committee ... . In forcing them to be traded this way, it would grant the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 00:25:02
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
How To Get Started In Forex Trading
The foreign exchange market (FOREX) offers several advantages to investors. But you need to know where to begin ... such as banks. A reputable broker will be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as protection against duping and abusive trade practices. Open [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 21:00:04
Quality Registered Institution
In the United States, forex brokers should be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ... . ForexGen offers a free trial Forex demo account that allows you to test your skills and practice without ... , no swaps and instant account Activation.2. Scandinavian quality with Swiss precision, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 17:41:00
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
Maryland’s Gensler finds a spot in Obama administration
Some Marylanders’ names have been tossed around as possibilities for posts in the Obama administration (i.e. former Rep. Wayne Gilchrest and Dr ... as his pick to head up the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The CFTC oversees $5 trillion in futures and options trading — oil and other commodities prices have been hot-button issues there this year [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 18:11:06
Nikkei to Cash, Gold Bearish
Sheesh. Hope you survived the week in one piece! We're just 100 points on the S&P 500 from the Oct. 2002 low of 777. Amazing ... by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. (See my "How It Works" page for details.) Trading new signals ... , derivatives, Black Swans, market timing, trading system development, CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 20:33:00
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
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
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
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
Get Started In Forex Trading
Get Started In Forex Trading December 14th, 2008 You may have heard about the foreign exchange market (Forex) ... such as banks. A reputable broker will be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as protection against fraud and abusive trade practices [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 22:03:55
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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