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By Press Release |
November 5, 2013
Today the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved two Position Limits Proposals.
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By Dave Michaels, Bloomberg |
November 4, 2013
The top U.S. derivatives regulator will consider a reworked proposal to limit speculation blamed for price surges in energy, wheat and other commodities after Wall Street groups successfully challenged an earlier version.
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
October 30, 2013
It hardly makes sense for the CFTC to pursue an appeal from a federal district court decision invalidating an earlier rule on speculative position limits when it is on the cusp of enacting new rules on the subject that (hopefully) will pass muster in the courts.
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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."
