Former SEC commissioner Annette Nazareth raises a touchy issue in testimony before SEC-CFTC regulatory harmonization hearings this morning: fungibility in the US futures market.
Nazareth lauds optio...
Gold’s recent run over $1,000 has caused many people to take a second look at the several exchange-traded funds, futures, and other investment vehicles linked to the metal. But some are also dig...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission still hasn’t come up with a smoking gun to prove speculators were behind last year’s spike in commodity prices, Barclays Capital says in a note to clie...
Those buying gold - which hit another record earlier Wednesday - can be divided into two camps, said Adam Klopfenstein, senior market strategist with futures broker Lind-Waldock. The first are those w...
Oil prices are back in triple digits, eight years out, anyway. December 2017 crude futures, one of the most distant and sparsely traded oil contracts offered by Nymex, are trading at $100 a barrel for...
Elevated gold prices indicate “gold bugs are bidding up prices to hedge against inflation and the U.S. dollar,” says Kathy Lien, director of currency research at GFT Forex. Reaction in cur...