…sluggish demand for gasoline, but then softened near the close on the mixed inventory data and a stronger US dollar to settle 6 cents lower, as trading in February oil expired with the…

…against civilians in Ukraine led to renewed calls for the EU to officially ban Russian energy exports . . . oil prices then rose more than 2% in early trading…

…90% of Russian oil imports, the contract price for US light sweet crude for July delivery jumped to over $120 a barrel in early trading Monday. After Saudi Aramco unexpectedly raised its selling…

A lot of trading in the Fixed Income (and especially FX) market is done for “liquidity” purposes. There is often an underlying goal involved (e.g., push prices higher with small…

…banning speculative trading in credit default swaps and set up a compulsory register of derivatives trading.” Call For Ban ON CDS Speculation Once again Geithner has shown whose interests are…

I won’t be saying anything publicly about this one. (Cue sighs of relief from ignorant economists.) Kid Dynamite will….

…Banks argue for remaining entangled with their profitable proprietary trading and derivatives businesses, since they know that the synergies of being able to use cheap depositor funding for their investment-banking…

…managed to get so deep in debt ? The trick (described by my colleague Gustavo Piga) is to make a very bad speculative bet. Greece (following a country which will…

…have plummeted, as financial institutions’ speculative hayday that funded unmerited, oversize executive bonuses (see, e.g., On Wall Street, Bonuses, not Profits, were Real, NY Times, Dec. 17, 2008) has crashed…

…following statement may be reasonable: While speculative behavior appears to be surfacing in some local markets, strong economic fundamentals are contributing importantly to the housing boom. This statement may be…