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European Commission and the United States Commodity Futures Commission: Common approach for transatlantic CCPs
February 11th, 2016
Commissioner Jonathan Hill and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Timothy Massad have today announced a common approach regarding requirements for central clearing counterparties (CCPs). The US and EU are home to the largest derivatives markets in ...
Commodity losses
December 18th, 2015
Markets have been extraordinarily complacent about the bad debts building up in the financial system. In the wake of the Fed’s decision to raise interest rates this week, the effect on debt was barely mentioned in the subsequent analysis ...
Blockchain Consortium focused on the Commodity Markets
November 25th, 2015
Kynetix, a global leader in Commodity post trade technology platforms, today announced it is launching a Commodity-focused blockchain consortium. An inaugural dinner will take place in London this Wednesday with 15 participants representing major commodity exchanges, investment banks, clearing ...
Ice Futures Singapore Launches with Commodity and Fx Contracts Serving Asian Markets
November 18th, 2015
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today announced the successful launch of trading and clearing for ICE Futures Singapore and ICE Clear Singapore on Tuesday, November 17, 2015. Total volume of 8,847 contracts traded and cleared on ...
Gold price breaks out – Oil Prices Tumble. Commodity market remains volatile
October 15th, 2015
The price of gold has definitively broken through what was seen as a key resistance level, setting the precious metal on a path to its first positive year-end finish in three years. Find the OSB Daily Technical Analysis for ...
China imports slump 20% amid falling commodity prices and weak demand
October 13th, 2015
Imports were down for the 11th month in a row, according to official figures, but there are signs that demand for the country’s exports is picking up China’s imports fell heavily in September, official figures said, keeping pressure on ...
Oil prices remain weak on Asia economy woes; shares in commodity firms tumble
September 29th, 2015
Japan stock market at 8-mth lows over Asian economic fear Falling commodity markets hit trading houses hard Oil prices remained low in early Asian trading on Tuesday following a slide of almost 3 percent the previous session, dragged down ...
CME Group and China Securities Index Co. Ltd Sign Agreement to Develop Commodity Indexes
September 22nd, 2015
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and China Securities Index Co. Ltd, today announced that they have signed an index development and product licensing agreement. Under this agreement, CME Group will grant CSI a license ...
NFA permanently barred firms from commodity trading advisor and pool operator membership
September 21st, 2015
NFA bars Burnet, Texas firm McElhannon Group from membership National Futures Association (NFA) has permanently barred the McElhannon Group, Inc. (McElhannon Group), an NFA Member commodity trading advisor, from membership and from acting as a principal of an NFA ...
Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator
September 18th, 2015
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission makes its mark. Virtual money is officially a commodity, just like crude oil or wheat. So says the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which on Thursday announced it had filed and settled charges against a Bitcoin exchange for ...
