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Limiting the Speculators The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's proposal to limit the number of contracts that speculators can own.   |
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Gary Gensler's Wish List How the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would reshape the financial system. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Speculators Aren't to Blame for Energy Prices Our blame is in the wrong place for high prices at the pump. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2009
David Williamson |
Will Stopping Oil Speculators Save Our Economy? Oil speculators are increasingly coming under fire, and their days of easy speculation may be coming to an end. |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
C. Benson et al. |
Nasdaq's Secret Agent Derivatives Campaign The exchange wants to limit banks' ownership of clearinghouses |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Robison et al. |
Amber Waves of Pain Lured by the idea of profiting from raw materials, investors put $277 billion into commodity ETFs and related securities by the end of 2009. Then they noticed a problem: When commodities go up, the commodity ETFs often don't. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2006
Mike Norman |
The Reason for High Oil Prices The rise in oil prices has become a very pressing issue. All the talk in the world about what will stop the energy price rise is moot if we fail to see it as a consequence of speculation, not supply and demand. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Casino Capitalism Is Back! With any asset class that has a big move, first the fundamentals attract speculation, then the speculation becomes dominant. In several commodity markets we may be at or dangerously near that point today. |
BusinessWeek
February 11, 2010
Katz & Schmidt |
A Goldman Guy Turns on the Street CFTC chief Gary Gensler's fight for tough rules on derivatives is making him exceedingly unloved. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Bryant Urstadt |
Book Review: The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market Hookers, Cristal, and the rise and fall of the New York Mercantile Exchange |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2008
Toby Shute |
So There Is an Oil Cabal After All A Swiss outfit called Vitol holds more than 10% of all oil contracts on the regulated exchange. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Shields & White |
CFTC Green-Lights a Film Derivatives Market Hollywood insiders and some senators worry that movie derivatives could influence which films bomb at the box office. |
BusinessWeek
October 14, 2010
Loder & Mattingly |
Under Siege at The CFTC Congress gave regulators wide discretion to regulate derivatives, causing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to be besieged by lobbyists. |
Salon.com
June 26, 2002
Damien Cave |
Foxes guarding the chicken coop President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron's derivatives trading instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place. |
The Motley Fool
October 25, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Why Futures Markets Are Important Understanding how futures work is important -- even if you never use them yourself. |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Should More Pension Funds Buy Gold? European hedge funds debate whether commodities belong in retirement funds. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Aaron Pressman |
A High-Risk Diet For Investors Why a portfolio full of commodities may not be the best hedge against inflation. |
BusinessWeek
February 5, 2007
Roben Farzad |
Oil: It's Back To Supply And Demand The speculators who bid up the market last year are in retreat. So much for the new reality. |
Financial Advisor
November 2006
Gail Liberman |
Hedging Real Estate Ways to hedge a client's real estate are coming out of the woodwork. But are the newest real estate derivative products worth using for clients? |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Pooley & Revzin |
Hungry for a Solution to Rising Food Prices Even if the global agriculture crisis doesn't turn cataclysmic, it represents a massive test. |
BusinessWeek
February 19, 2007
Joseph Weber |
The Triumph Of 'Pork-Belly Crapshooters' Chicago has emerged as a financial hub in its own right - with plenty of other cities coming on strong. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Robert Schmidt |
Starving the Regulators The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are in a severe budget squeeze, and layoffs may be the only answer |
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Melanie Waddell |
The Regulators Never Sleep The SEC and the CFTC have formed a joint committee that will address emerging regulatory issues. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
McCluskey & Beyers |
MF Global: Who Knew What, and When? What customers, brokers, and employees saw leading up to the bankruptcy. |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
The Motley Fool
September 8, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Feds Seeking Clarity on Crude Trading Watch as the commodities folks look into crude data reporting. |
Financial Advisor
August 2004
Pauline P. Lam |
Commodity Investments Help Diversify Portfolios A new tool--resampled efficiency--helps create optimal allocations. Investors can gain exposure to commodities by investing in commodity index or individual commodity futures contracts. A third option is mutual funds. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2012
Kristen Capuano |
The Big Idea: Fighting Contango For investors and advisors eager to add to or adjust their commodity allocations, the contango-fighting approach of a next-generation commodity product may be worth a closer look. |
Investment Advisor
April 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Funding in the Budget Fight Crosshairs Commission may be the biggest casualty as lawmakers continue tussle over the federal budget |
Investment Advisor
November 19, 2010
Melanie Waddell |
GOP House Will Attempt to Rein in Health Care, Dodd-Frank Republicans will urge SEC, other regulators, to 'go easy' in interpreting Dodd-Frank |
U.S. Banker
December 2010
Cheyenne Hopkins |
Republican House To Shape Reform Though House Republicans are almost certain to be frustrated in trying to repeal provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, they are likely to have some success in using oversight powers to influence how the law is implemented. |
Wall Street & Technology
December 7, 2009
Chris Murphy |
CME Group Thrives on Technology Innovation As the operator of the Chicago Mercantile and other exchanges, CME Group's competitive advantage increasingly is built on technology innovation. |
Investment Advisor
October 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Implications of a Republican-Controlled Congress The consensus is pretty clear: The mid-term elections could result in Republicans taking control of the House and gaining more seats in the Senate. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor Commodities futures have unique diversification properties and, on average, perform well whenever stocks and bonds have done poorly. |
