…Banks have controlled derivatives trading in order to make it a lucrative noncompetitive market for them and a costly market for derivatives endusers, read the article in the Saturday New…

I ask simply because of this statement: The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) indicates that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist appears to have a very good…

Stormy wrote in 2008 a narrative for the last few decades on trade…still relevent: Trade means jobs; trade brings money into plants; trade surpluses ripple through the economy, providing not…

Rep. Tom Garrett is a Republican representing Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. He is a member of the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, and Foreign Affairs. He presents…

…crude for April delivery shot up nearly $15 to $130.50 a barrel in off market trading on Sunday on the prospect for a full embargo of Russian oil and products…

…the $100 a barrel level to rally late and finish trading 48 cents higher at $105.17 a barrel, triggered by reports that OPEC was only able to raise their output a…

…pioneers of commodity trading. Major commodity trading houses include familiar names like Cargill, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Bunge. When China opened up after Mao’s death, commodity traders were there to exploit the…

…leverage and their bonuses, ban their flash trading heavily regulate their involvement in speculative gambling with derivatives (i.e., betting on positions that they don’t own). And given that their resurging…

…the Barron’s cover story […] The Commodity Exchange Act addresses excess speculation in commodity markets, and states that “the Commission shall…fix such limits on the amounts of trading which may…

…of the fact that the commodity markets are too small to absorb an excess of speculative dollars, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in conjunction with exchanges, imposes position limits on…