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

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Market Mayhem Watch: Fear and Greed

Guido can't resist and is now actively trading once again in financial markets, attracted by the blood on the streets of New York and London ... to financial futures, foreign exchange and commodities rather than individual stocks. Have an aversion [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 08:29:41

A personal letter from Satan to Henry Paulson

January 6, 2009 — Stefan Fobes A Personal Letter from Satan to Henry Paulson3.31 ... of all financial instruments and assets at the close of the trading day, as is currently done with commodities futures and stock options the banning of “off balance sheet” accounting the banning of offshore [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:38:26

DrumBeat: September 26, 2008

Oil: Contract killing “SPECULATORS are back and prices are up,” moaned James May, the head of the Air Transport Association, ... . The Democrats have vowed to pass a law crimping speculation. The Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 13:15:07

Stock Market Dictionary - C

CFifth letter of a Nasdaq stock descriptor specifying that issue is exempt from Nasdaq listing requirements for a temporary period ... taxesCFCSee: Controlled foreign corporationCFRSee: Cost and FreightCFTCSee: Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:33:00

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

Yet Another Reason to Vote Against John McCain

The Progress Report The McCain Economic Council : Looking at the members of McCain's " ... , he was behind the Commodity Futures Modernization Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The former made ... severance package, which, with another $21 million in options, brought her $42 million [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 18:30:02

Obama takeover augurs financial regulator shakeup

By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress will take over the government this month with big ... and chiefs for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

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

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

more on Mallaby

Robert Waldmann Looks like I should have put the post to which the post below links here. Thanks for clicking the link ... regulations to deal with new financial instruments. Roughly the Commodities Futures modernization [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 16:24:40

How is Forex Trading Different?

How is Forex Trading weird? Now, whereas of self-confident regulatory changes that occurred in the behind ’90’s and the explosion of apartment ... (FOREX) settled trading stocks or commodities (futures), including liquidity, leverage, costs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 15:00:49

Mexico 2009: Stimulus, Security and Neighbourly Assistance

Mexico 2009: Stimulus, Security and Neighbourly Assistance January 8th, 2009 by Richard Basas This week brought some ever-growing attention on Mexico. With the decline in commodity prices ... future jobs for the large minority of Ontario’s workforce that are linked to autos. Mexico, while [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:00:24

Mickey Beats Me To It

Proving once again that the early bird gets left in the starting gate, Mickey Kaus presents a rebuttal from "emailer Z" ... had been incorporated into the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. Let's go to Phil Gramm [more...]

Date: 2008-06-05 13:30:26

An Obama surge on Wall Street, and beyond?

Did we just witness the Obama pre-victory rally? The stock market today bucked convention with a sharp advance that lifted the Dow Jones ... stocks (European blue-chip shares jumped 4.1%, on average) and commodities (oil futures soared $6.62 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 08:49:47

Honda Japan confirms new A-segment hatchback, gives sneak preview of future products

Click for larger image When Honda’s CEO Takeo Fukui delivered his 2008 year-end speech in mid-December last year, ... material prices. With so many people flocking to commodity-investment in the futures market, things [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 19:51:03

Trading Chaos

Williams, Bill & Justine Gregory-Williams. Trading Chaos: Maximise Profits With Proven Technical Techniques (2nd ed.) ... through 'countertrend' signals which occur in commodities futures and currency/foreign exchange (forex [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 06:04:14

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

Will globalization be reversed?

OK, I am re-reading The Economist (even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day, right?) ... exports of key commodities and, in India’s case, restricting futures trading. Concern about food [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 20:07:05

CASS SUNSTEIN appears likely to lead the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House ... , he said "The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal regulatory agency [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:46:10

Quote of the Day: Aggressive lending to 1st-time buyers

From a speech back in 2004 comes this telling quote: > "One other thing I've done, ... 4) whose exemption was made possible by the Commodities Futures Modernization Act. That legislation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 21:45:00

The ethics of Armageddon

The ethics of Armageddon BobFelton | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | 6:31 Eastern Evidently, ... if Christians should invest in those things that are predicted about in the bible. Commodities futures [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 11:31:34

Oil's Well That Ends Well

Well, no shit Sherlock speculation drove up the price of oil to obscene levels, as did the nonsense of "peak oil ... the commodities futures market. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, it's traded alongside cotton [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 02:34:00

Soaring Soybeans

I believe that more investors are beginning to bet on future inflation by returning to the commodity markets. This is one reason why the price of gold has continued bouyant despite soft prices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 19:03:00

Asia Likely to Lead the US Markets Higher...

Are you ready for 2009? Asia's investors were ready to go ... trading was light, it was interesting to note that Asian commodities traders were most active. Buyers ... futures are rising, so you can expect that for those traders active in the US tomorrow [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 07:08:00

FutureGame Brings Stock Market Streak Games to Facebook

Don’t let the name fool you. This game is nothing like what you might think ... , Facebook game FutureGame does technically deal with the future, just not the distant future. It’ ... whether a particular stock, currency, or commodity will go up or down in the next 30 seconds. That’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 15:01:42

Commodities Outlook 2009

The outlook for commodity futures – including gold – as 2009 begins… read more Publisher: BullionVault [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:03:11

Women Still Lacking in Financial Literacy, Or Not…

women_money_betsssssyFlickr A recent State Farm study that 74% of American women are anxious about their financial futures but only 15 percent ... from the dismaying number of women who are unwilling to take action to change their financial futures ... t want to waste our most precious commodity answering survey questions, or worse yet - wasting [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 10:30:45

Sure Enough, Farmers Finally Begin To Make Some Money

And there are people out there who want to wreck it for them ... into the hands of agro-industry and places food in commodities futures markets. Here profit-hungry [more...]

Date: 2008-06-07 18:30:08

Buffett On Investing In Metals As Inflation Protection

We would not necessarily view metals investing as protection against inflation ... do better than most businesses. Buffett On Commodities We have no opinion on commodities. If we’re ... up, we could buy oil futures, which we did once. We think the South Korean Posco (PKX [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 07:43:00

One Method to Flush Out Oil Speculators: "Liquidation Only" Restriction

Daniel Dicker, a former oil trader writing at TheStreet ... has not been manipulative but just a rush to improve gains in commodities... The futures markets, however [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 18:46:52

Joseph S. Forte : Despicable, Greedy Bastard

Uhh huh. You knew it was only a matter of time given the greed factor in this area ... of this latest Ponzi scheme.The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:17:00

Asian Session - All Calm Right Now

Market Brief Usd was stable in Asian session as the lack of new data and non-data events gave speculators nothing new to trade on ... . Asian Equity markets are in the green while European index futures are pointing to a negative open. Commodities are higher with wti crude trading at $129.88bbl and gold up [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 08:30:46

N99i Tri-band Dual Sim Card TV Function Cell Phone

The audacity of handset cloners is unbelievable - the device pictured on the left is peddled by LightInTheBox and carries the slightly weird ... for Nokia and Android manufacturers alike in the future. As operating systems become a commodity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 10:03:46

Gasoline

... the commodities market with inflated futures prices. Fear of political production disruption or supply cutback [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:21:15

Honda Japan Confirms new A-Segment Hatchback with Sneak Peak of Future Products

This looks like it will pertain mostly to other parts of the world, ... and rising raw material prices. With so many people flocking to commodity-investment in the futures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:39:00

Honda Japan confirms new A-segment hatchback, gives sneak preview of future products

When Honda’s CEO Takeo Fukui delivered his 2008 year-end speech in mid-December last year, ... material prices. With so many people flocking to commodity-investment in the futures market, things [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:09:24

Facing crisis, Obama moves quickly to fill economic posts

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, ... Gensler to lead the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Gensler spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:29:30

An exchange on gold’s future, and GATA’s

Monday, January 5, 2009 Dear GATA: I am wondering if the words of Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Bart Chilton, distributed by GATA on January 4 (http://www.gata.org/node/7056 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 10:17:40

Derivative Bets Gone Bad May Worsen Shipping Industry Woes

When it rains, it pours. Amazingly, the list of possible casualties from positions on forward freight agreements includes not only ship owners, ... in charter rates for ships carrying coal, iron ore and other commodities. The sector’s Baltic Dry Index ... director in the futures division of London’s Simpson, Spence & Young shipbrokers, said the market’s [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 07:26:33

Dodd schedules Schapiro's confirmation hearing

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (pictured) ... for the combination of the SEC and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Also scheduled [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:07:26

Phil Gramm: There's More

by hilzoy Recently, two more articles about Phil Gramm, "McCain's Economic Brain", have appeared ... to the Congressional Record, Gramm promised that the amendment—also known as the Commodity Futures [more...]

Date: 2008-06-03 16:37:11

The Shortest Investment Book Ever by James O’Donnell

... in commodities or buying options and futures, but for 99% of individuals that stuff won’t matter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 11:30:02

Commodity News Digest

Global Markets: Stocks, Dollar Surge into 2009 - Reuters After Worst Year Ever, Commodities May Lag Recovery - Reuters Success of Managed Futures is a Mixed Bag - Chicago Tribune Bonds in 2009: Waiting by the Exits - CNNMoney Oil Jumps 3.6% on Supply Worries - CNNMoney [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 21:39:54

Nancy Pelosi’s energy policy

I sometimes wonder (in fact I often wonder) about the real mental acuity of the Speaker of the House ... overwhelmingly by the House requiring the Commodities Futures [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 06:03:26

Listen to this article

In a VoxEU post, Guillermo Calvo argues forcefully that rising commodity prices are the result of excess liquidity rather ... futures have been banned. The thrust of this column is that we are not going through another self ... , that the demand for commodities for current consumption or production is completely inelastic (food [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 08:07:32

Winter Meetings Are Heating Up

Just one day after acquiring Gerald Laird from the Rangers, the Tigers went out and made another deal to retool the club for 2009 ... in their careers (i.e. Shane Spencer, Karim Garcia, etc.). Jackson, on the other hand, is a proven commodity ... -of-the-rotation starter for the foreseeable future. By acquiring Jackson, the Tigers might be done [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 01:03:36

Closing Comments September 02 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have surged today as a variety of fundamental and technical factors have combined to drive prices higher ... . There was an unsubstantiated rumor of a SWF fund selling commodities and buying Treasury debt. In that regard, the futures contract performed better than cash today and that would lend some credence [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 20:19:33

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

‘A Hanging Concentrates the Human Mind’

Cross-Posted at Left Flank (featuring Charlie Rose’s interview with Martin Wolf) ... see 6% GDP growth next year. And, commodity prices, including oil, continue to fall (although ... their future”: either spend, or save. I found this interesting because, amid the rush to reform [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 04:20:55

Gas Price Deflation: Should It Affect What Automobiles We Purchase?

... when it comes to the future price of such a vital commodity with so many different fingers in the pool [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 20:00:02

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