Ironically, Exxon's significant increase in profits of late comes after its Chairman and CEO virtually pleaded in May with the pooh-bahs of the Senate Finance Committee to rein in the excessive speculation, if not manipulation, of oil on the commodity exchanges.

WASHINGTON -- A federal agency that regulates commodities trading says it brought the most enforcement actions it has in its 37-year history during th...

The formation of oil prices in this day and age is a farce, having little and ever less to do with the market disciplines of supply and demand.

Given the latest news that Chevron has been leveraging its insider status for huge profits, isn't it time our government began to rein in the massive oil market speculation? Or are the interests of the financial and oil industries just too well connected to permit change?

NEW YORK (Jennifer Golson) - A former commodities trader pleaded guilty on Monday to threatening to kill more than 40 financial regulators, includ...

Business must be slow and circulation down at Barron's. What better way to stimulate newsprint distribution than a blazoned scaremonger front page headline as in this past weekend's edition, "Get Ready For $150 Oil".

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators said Thursday they are collaborating with other nations on rules intended to prevent another global financial cr...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. commodity regulators are suing three companies and two individuals claiming they manipulated crude oil futures prices on the New Yo...

The big fluctuations in the price of crude oil over the last several weeks gave fresh evidence of the ever increasing influence of speculators on the price every day Americans pay for gasoline. Why isn't the government stepping in?

WASHINGTON -- Goldman Sachs & Co. says one of its units is being investigated by federal regulators over whether it improperly used investment account...

The extreme volatility of commodities prices and the unpredictability that comes with it is increasing the cost of doing business for everyone....

ONE year ago, the stock market took a brief and terrifying nose-dive. Almost a trillion dollars in wealth momentarily vanished. Shares in blue-chip co...

Financial regulators asked lawmakers on Wednesday for more money to enforce dozens of new rules and oversee Wall Street. ...

Government regulators on the Wall Street beat have long been outnumbered and outspent by the companies they are supposed to police. But even after rec...

Deadlines for many of the rulemakings mandated by last summer’s financial reform legislation have slipped, leaving the implementation dates for some...

The crass ignorance of the realities in the Middle East and the exploitation of that ignorance by speculators compounded by the mediatization of the...

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday that regulators could now handle the collapse of a "too big to fail" bank. The next day, presenting a new r...

Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Forged comment letters purportedly from an H.J. Heinz Co. executive, a Burger King Co. franchise and at least five other Arkans...

Get ready for $4 gas and your local Starbucks brew heading north of 5 bucks -- all courtesy of the financial lobbyists, hedge fund traders, industry spokesmen and a brow-beaten CFTC.

The Dodd-Frank Act gave the CFTC until January 2011 to set limits to curb excessive speculation in the energy markets. Lo and behold, Chairman Gensler told lawmakers the CFTC wouldn't meet the deadline "because it doesn't yet have sufficient data."

By Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg President, CEO & CIO Strategic Investment Group Notwithstanding the possibility that more policy intervention in the U.S. ...