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1 | 2 | 3 | NextHave wheat speculators gone wild? 1 Citation Filed under: International markets , Market matters , Commodities Who is in charge of regulating the wheat futures market? That agency is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) which oversees trading in the futures markets. One area of regulation is the number of open contracts any one person can have at any given time. The limit is 6,500 contracts. So then what caused the price of wheat to go wild last year? It seems that the CFTC was complicit in that they gave exemptions fo, technorati.com
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And Then There?s This?Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 1 Citation In early Tuesday trading in the Far East, gold didn?t do much of anything until shortly before 11:00 a.m. in the morning in Hong Kong. From that point, gold got sold off about $8 in an hour. Not a lot, but a pretty big move for the usually quiet Far East market. As it turned out, that was the low for world gold for the day. A quick retest of that price at 3:00 p.m. in Hong Kong?and gold was on its way higher?and the US$ much lower. This lasted through London trading, but ran into the usual brick, technorati.com
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La CFTC contre le "sabotage du repos dominical" 1 Citation source: Libération Strasbourg OTAN - La préfecture du Bas-Rhin a autorisé l'ouverture des magasins ce dimanche à Strasbourg. Intervenant en période de soldes, la mesure vise à compenser les pertes de chiffre d'affaires enregistrées par les commerçants à l'occasion du sommet de l'Otan, début avril, qui avait entraîné des perturbations de circulation et le bouclage du centre ville. Mais la CFTC ne l'entend pas de cette oreille. Dénonçant "le sabotage du repos dominical", le syndicat a in, technorati.com
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Mark Sanford?s Affair: Read The Emails 1 Citation Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina Here is the original: Mark Sanford?s Affair: Read The Emails, technorati.com
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CFTC, Toothless Regulator, Looks To Take A Bite Out Of Derivatives 1 Citation When President Obama unveiled his regulatory overhaul plan last week, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, dodged a bullet. Lacking power, the agency has only gently regulated the derivatives markets, which have been blamed for wreaking havoc on the global economy Original post: CFTC, Toothless Regulator, Looks To Take A Bite Out Of Derivatives, technorati.com
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S&P 500 Index COT Report Charts 1 Citation S&P 500 Index Commitments of Traders (COT) report charts as of June 23, 2009: S&P 500 COT Chart - Net Position S&P 500 COT Chart - Net Position (Smoothed) S&P 500 COT Chart - Cumulative Net Position S&P 500 Index - Open Interest Chart of S&P 500 Index ($SPX) for the same period as the COT charts for comparison: S&P 500 Index Price Chart COT charts generated using Chicago Mercantile Exchange S&P 500 stock index futures only posi, technorati.com
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1 Citation Some interesting facts I didn?t know: Sheila Bair tried to stop Wendy Gramm. Gramm went straight from CFTC chair to Enron?s board of directors. From a great post at the HuffPo: In the 1990s, the CFTC began allowing many privately negotiated derivatives, or so-called over-the-counter contracts, to escape regulation. Wendy Gramm, CFTC chair from 1988 to 1993 and wife of former Texas Senator Phil Gramm, supported a rule change in 1992 that loosened the energy trading industry for com, technorati.com
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Congress and Regulators Discuss OTC Derivatives Regulation 1 Citation Increased regulation looming as SEC and CFTC jockey for position The severe financial crisis that has unfolded over the last two years has revealed serious weaknesses in the structure of U.S. financial regulation, as well as the pressing need for a comprehensive regulatory framework. Part of President Obama?s new financial regulation plan is to regulate the over the counter (OTC) derivatives markets. On June 22nd, 2009, both the SEC and CFTC testified to congress regarding the regulation, technorati.com
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SEC, CFTC agree on derivatives oversight 1 Citation The heads of two federal agencies with financial oversight responsibilities have told Congress that their jurisdiction can be split over the instruments blamed for hastening the global economic crisis., technorati.com
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Jacques Voisin (président de la CFTC) veut passer à la vitesse supérieure 1 Citation Le président de la CFTC Jacques Voisin a jugé aujourd'hui "urgent de passer à la vitesse supérieure pour répondre aux conséquences sociales de la crise", au vu des dernières prévisions de l'Insee sur une poursuite de la dégradation "rapide" du marché du travail et un taux de chômage à 10,1% à Noël."La note de conjoncture de l?Insee (...) montre que le plan de relance adopté par le gouvernement est loin d?être adapté à l?ampleur de la crise ou que, pour le moins, il tarde à faire sentir ses effet, technorati.com
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