Futures Magazine By Austin Kiddle November 20, 2013 • Reprints The U.S. Comex gold futures (COMEX:GCZ13) fell 1.17% on Monday to $1,272.30 and rebounded about $1 on Tuesday. The Dollar Index (NYBOT:DXZ13) also fell 0.18% in the past two days to 80.704. After rising…
By Mary P. Hansen, Drinker Biddle November 21, 2013 • Reprints On November 12, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it had entered into a Deferred-Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with Scott Herckis, a former hedge fund administrator…
By Justin Pugsley November 20, 2013 • Reprints China, the world’s No. 1 consumer of so many raw materials, apparently looks set to carry on buying following bold reforms announced at the third plenum of the communist leadership. But it could be a…
By Debarati Roy, Bloomberg November 20, 2013 • Reprints CME Group Inc.’s Comex halted trading in December gold futures (COMEX:GCZ13) for about 20 seconds today at 6:26:41 a.m. New York time, said Damon Leavell, a spokesman for the exchange. The…
By Austin Kiddle November 22, 2013 • Reprints The U.S. Comex gold futures (COMEX:GCZ13) lost 2.35% in the past two days and ended at $1,243.60 on Thursday, a level last seen in early July. The gold futures troughed this year on June 28 when the prices…
By Alasdair Macleod November 18, 2013 • Reprints Based on the monthly figures to Oct. 1 recently released by the St Louis Fed, FMQ jumped $227bn in September to $12,176bn. This puts it $4,819bn and 65% over the long-term exponential trend established…
By Matthew Leising, Bloomberg November 18, 2013 • Reprints The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, charged with promoting fairness on the new public markets for swaps mandated by the Dodd Frank Act, is telling three operators they must change…
By Christopher Faille November 13, 2013 • Reprints Bitcoins have been in the news a good deal lately, and they get there in ways that suggest they are poised to impact the world of alphaand its pursuers. So it’s good to have a primer: a brief accessible…
By Frank Holmes November 13, 2013 • Reprints For nearly four decades, curious investors have made their way to the Big Easy for a taste of New Orleans and several helpings of advice and perspective at the New Orleans Investment Conference. Coincidentally…
By Press Release November 12, 2013 • Reprints Self-regulatory organizations (SROs) for the equities and options markets have been working with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on their collective plans to strengthen the resilience, performance…
By Debarati Roy, Bloomberg November 11, 2013 • Reprints Hedge funds cut bullish gold (COMEX:GCZ13) bets, adding the most short contracts in four weeks, as U.S. economic growth fuels speculation the Federal Reserve will trim stimulus. Holdings across…
By Alasdair Macleod November 8, 2013 • Reprints This week an article in Euromoney points out that liquidity in bond markets (CBOT:ZBZ13) is drying up. The blame is laid at the door of regulations designed to increase banks’ capital relative to their…
By Michael McFarlin November 6, 2013 • Reprints As AlphaMetrix closes its trading operations, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed charges against the firm earlier this week alleging it had violated the Commodity Exchange Act. AlphaMetrix…
By Matt Levine, Bloomberg November 6, 2013 • Reprints A while back we talked about a lawsuit in which Chicago proprietary trading firm DRW Investments LLC had sued the Commodity Futures Regulatory Commission because it was afraid that the CFTC was…
By Press Release November 6, 2013 • Reprints Thank you, Walt, for that kind introduction. I also would like to thank the Futures Industry Association (FIA) for the invitation – I’m honored that you’ve invited me to speak each of these last five…