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By Alanna Byrne |
October 11, 2012
Four high-ranking Republican members of the House Committee on Financial Services accused the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Wednesday of wasting time and money when implementing a law that would have set position limits on derivatives tied to 28 physical commodities.
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By Phil Flynn |
October 11, 2012
What was a “shock” to oil traders was the magnitude of the distillate drawdown in last night's API. We knew that supply was tight in the Midwest as farmers are deep into the harvest — but a drop of 6.2 million barrels?
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By Daniel P. Collins |
October 3, 2012
When my kids are acting particularly nutty and inattentive, my wife looks them in the eye and says, “focus, you need to focus.”
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By Phil Flynn |
October 3, 2012
As oil prices soared to a record high in 2008, traders, politicians and regulators were stunned as oil made a move of historical portions. Now oil traders are cheering the overturning of position limit rules.
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By Alanna Byrne |
September 28, 2012
A U.S. district court today vacated a controversial Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rule that would have set position limits on derivatives tied to 28 physical commodities, and remanded the rule to the agency.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
September 1, 2012
It was Edward Walczak’s experience running Chicago-based candy manufacturer Brach’s commodity hedging operation in the late 1990s that got him deeply involved in the markets.
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By Thomas B. Hatch, Thomas C. Mahlum |
September 1, 2012
In an age of position limits, we discuss what constitutes “market manipulation."
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By Press Release |
July 25, 2012
Written testimony of CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler before the House Committee on Agriculture in which he discusses Dodd-Frank, Libor enforcement actions and PFGBest.
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By Michael McFarlin & Daniel P. Collins |
June 1, 2012
No limit on opportunity
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By Press Release |
May 22, 2012
Testimony of Chairman Gary Gensler Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Washington, DC on the implementation of Dodd-Frank.
