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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 Press Release |
February 22, 2012
CFTC orders New York Firm D.E. Shaw & Co. L.P. to pay $140,000 penalty for violating soybean and corn futures speculative position limits
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By Daniel P. Collins |
October 19, 2011
There was a surreal exchange between Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler and Commissioner Michael Dunn during Tuesday’s open meeting of the Commission ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
June 10, 2011
We noted earlier this week how a recently released United Nations report on price formation in commodity markets had recommended that government take an active ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
June 8, 2011
Well now the United Nations has wandered into the analysis of what is going on in commodity markets, releasing a report this week, and appears ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
June 1, 2011
After roundtables, Congressional hearings and comment letters, there still is no consensus on spec limits
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By Daniel P. Collins |
May 25, 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against three ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
May 13, 2011
When silver dropped precipitously off of its near $50 high at the beginning of the month some people saw it as the bursting of a ...
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By Press Release |
August 19, 2009
CFTC revokes no-action letters for DB Commodity Services that allowed CTA/CPO to go over corn, soybean and wheat spec limits.