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Regulators Launch Crackdown On Commodity Speculation -- One Year After Deadline

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Commodities, Commodity Prices, Financial Reform, Financial Speculation, Gold, Speculators, Cftc, Financial Regulation, Commodity Speculation, Futures, Business News

WASHINGTON: The U.S. futures regulator hopes to fully implement its biggest crackdown on commodity market speculators by early 2012, a year after the ...

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'Sweetness' Follows Jimmy Eat World

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Bullying, Sweetness, Foo Fighters, American Idiot, Jimmy Eat World, Invented, Chase This Light, The Middle, Futures, Green Day, Jim Adkins, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

The multi-hit wonders are on the road headlining again in support of their Sept. 28 release "Invented," which follows chart-topper "Chase This Light" which was released in 2005.

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BP Lobbying Against Financial Reform's Derivatives Regulation As It Cleans Up Oil Spill

Mother Jones | Andy Kroll | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Coast, Congress, Commodities, Lobbying, Chamber of Commerce, Lobbyists, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Gulf Oil Spill, Derivatives Market, Louisiana, Oil Spill, Big Oil, BP Oil Spill, Wall Street, Airlines, Futures, Politics News

Oil giant BP may be overwhelmed with the clean-up from the collapse of its Deepwater oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. But the corporation has still foun...

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Jobs Report Proves Congress Should Pass Small Business Bill

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Abuse, Crontracts, 9.5 Percent, Middle Class, Jobs, Wall St. Small Business, Obama Administration, Loopholes, Jobs Report, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Jobles Rate, Fraud, Politics, Unemployment, Census Workers, Small Business Administration, Jobs Legislation, Private Sector Job Growth, U.S. Census, Procurement, Government Buying, Futures, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

A little known bill in Congress could be the best shot the Obama Administration has to cut unemployment. H.R. 2568, the Fairness and Transparency in C...

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JPMorgan Fined $49 Million By British Financial Services Authority

nytimes.com | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Britain, Options, British Financial Services Authority, Futures, Business News

JPMorgan Chase was fined (pounds)33.32 million, or $49 million, by Britain's financial regulator Thursday for failing to keep client funds separate fr...

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How to Corner the Gold Market (Extra Edition)

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bullion Banks, Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Gold, Cftc, Etf, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, China, Deutsche Bank AG, Paul Volcker, Exchange Traded Funds, Futures, Ubs, Scotiamocatta, Business News
Janet Tavakoli

First, let your greed overcome all regard for the stability of the global market, and overcome your aversion to illegal activities. Then say away from people like me, because I'd like to see you thrown in jail.

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How to Corner the Gold Market

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Etf, Commodities Futures TradingCommission, China, Gold, Exchange Traded Funds, Paul Volcker, Cftc, Futures, Business News
Janet Tavakoli

First, let your greed overcome all regard for the stability of the global market, and overcome your aversion to illegal activities.

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Hollywood Goes Wall St.: Controversy Over Plans To Allow Gambling On Movies

nytimes.com | JOSEPH PLAMBECK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trend Exchange, Cantor Futures Exchange, Cantor Fitzgerald, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Futures Markets, Futures, Los Angeles News

The Motion Picture Association of America, the film industry group, has asked the federal commission that oversees futures exchanges to prevent the tr...

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Can We Provide Better Financing for Food Aid in Emergencies?

Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vijaya Ramachandran, Global Poverty, Haiti Earthquake, Poverty, Center for Global Development, Haiti, Foreign Aid, Stock Options, World Food Programme, Futures, World News
Vijaya Ramachandran

Emergency food aid would be more effective if it were financed on a multi-year, cash basis -- rather than on a year-by-year, reactive basis -- using forward contracts, call options, or other instruments available on futures markets.

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Goldman Sach's Charity Filings Reveal Foundation's Complex Trades

New York Times | GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs Foundation, How Much Does Goldman Sachs Give to Charity, Charity, Stocks, Economy, Lloyd Blankfein, Walls Street, Commonfund, Goldman Sachs, Philanthropy, How Much Does Goldman Sachs Donate, Bailout, Hedge Funds, Bonuses, Goldman Sachs Donations, Giving, Executive Pay, Goldman Sachs Leaders, Futures, Business News

The 2008 tax filing for the Goldman Sachs Foundation, a copy of which was provided by the firm late Wednesday, provides a glimpse of the legendary tra...

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The Big Lie Exposed: The Future is Not Predictable

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street, Fraud, Stock Market, Economy, Futures, Burton Malkiel, Warren Buffett, Edgar Smith, Stock, Financial Crisis, Business News
Jeff Schweitzer

Choose any famous money manager or Wall Street guru or any billionaire, and I will show you that none has ever done better than chance over time in predicting market movement.

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Wall Street Pulls Back On Israel-Gaza Crisis

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stock Prices, Stocks, Futures, Wall Street, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street retreated Monday as continuing violence in the Middle East and a resulting jump in oil prices reminded investors that the...

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The Big Lie Exposed: the Future is Not Predictable

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Stock Market, Wall Street, Economy, Stock, Futures, Burton Malkiel, Financial Crisis, Warren Buffett, Edgar Smith, Business News
Jeff Schweitzer

Choose any famous money manager or Wall Street guru or any billionaire, and I will show you that none has ever done better than chance over time in predicting market movement.

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The Mines are Full of Canaries

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muriel Siebert, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Options, Derivatives, Swaps, Enron, Greenspan, Washington Post, The Lessons of Enron, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Senate Subcomittee on Investigations, Bailout, Levitt, Brooksley E. Born, Market Crisis, Rubin, Long Term Capital Management, Futures, Business News
Margaret Heffernan

We need a new guard, who know the system but didn't build it. Don't let anyone tell you they're not out there. They've been there for years.

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Brokerage Stocks May Drop 50 Percent, Says Oppenheimer Analyst

Times | Catherine Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Brokerage Stocks, JPMorgan Chase Buys Bear Stearns, Bear Stearns and Mortgage Crisis, Bear Stearns Bailout, Futures, Bear Stearns, Bear Stearns Collapse, Bear Stearns CEO, Bear Stearns Purhcase, Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase, Bear Stearns Buyout, Business News

Meredith Whitney, the Wall Street analyst who received death threats after writing a negative report about Citigroup, has predicted that financial sto...

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