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 ...

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 ...

Three US House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats have asked the CFTC questions about the potential impact of unregulated energy commodity swaps and futures on prices. WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 27-- ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued two proposed rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) at an open meeting held yesterday, ...

U.S. lender Capital One Financial Corp got a waiver from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) after plunging oil prices increased the bank's derivatives exposure above a key regulatory ...

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 ...

The White House is reviewing an early-stage move from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to revisit reporting requirements for both swaps and ...

On April 30, 2015, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved a notice of proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rules) to reduce reporting and recordkeeping obligations for end-users that ...

HOUSTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Big energy companies like Royal Dutch Shell and commodity merchants like Cargill [CARG.UL] have a simple argument in pushing back against looming new swap market rules: ...