Futures Magazine By Charles Stein, Bloomberg November 4, 2013 • Reprints Bill Gross no longer runs the world’s largest mutual fund. Gross’s Pimco Total Return Fund has shrunk by $37.5 billion since the start of this year, ending last month with $247.9 billion…
By Ginger Szala November 1, 2013 • Reprints Rabobank to pay $475 million to settle Libor and Euribor charges The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an order against Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank…
By Alasdair Macleod November 1, 2013 • Reprints On Wednesday Finland gave in to public pressure and revealed where it stores its gold (COMEX:GCZ13) reserves. The statement followed a press release by the Bank of Sweden on similar lines released on…
By Toni Hansen October 25, 2013 • Reprints Economic Reports and Events This Week U.S. Domestic: Eastern Time Zone (GMT -5:00) (New York, Toronto) Oct 28 9:15 AM Industrial Production Sep Oct 28 9:15 AM Capacity…
By MahiFX October 25, 2013 • Reprints Eagerly awaited by forex market participants, the triennial BIS survey charts the magnitude, structure and trends of the worldwide market that dwarfs the trading volumes of the major stock exchanges combined.…
By Michael McFarlin, Kristin Fox October 23, 2013 • Reprints On the heels of a National Futures Association (NFA) action against AlphaMetrix LLC on Monday, at least one group of commodity trading advisors (CTAs) is organizing to ensure their voice…
By Philip McBride Johnson October 22, 2013 • Reprints I picked up the Wall Street Journal today (as I do every day) and was informed that the JPMorgan Chase omnibus settlement with the federal government “wouldn’t assess harsh penalties tied to firms…
By Kristin Fox October 21, 2013 • Reprints Moving to curtail AlphaMetrix’ troubles from expanding, the National Futures Association (NFA) today ordered AlphaMetrix LLC “to satisfy its obligations to certain pool participants by Nov 1,” thus…