Picture this: You see the corn market offering a profitable futures price. You’re booking your inputs, so you don’t want to tie up cash for a margin call. Plus, committing to your grain delivery time ...
Did public pension funds cause an energy price bubble? More than a few noteworthy investors, George Soros among them, believed there was, indeed, a correlation between crude oil prices running up ...
Three US House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats on Oct. 24 asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission new questions about the potential impact of unregulated energy commodity swaps and ...
Manufacturers often face increasing prices on the raw materials they buy. Higher costs for raw materials can cut into a company's profit margins, especially if competition hamstrings a company's ...
In the dynamic global commodity markets, producers and consumers of energy, base metals, precious metals, and soft commodities encounter a multitude of challenges. Volatile prices, geopolitical ...
As a general matter, commodity swaps and options on commodities, whether or not physically settled, are subject to regulation under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd ...