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Alaska's isolation from the rest of the country has always made logistics a problematic issue for the young state. This has n...
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WASHINGTON -- Texas cotton grower Brad Heffington speaks Wall Street's language of hedges, correlation charts and the like as easily as he discusses weevils and pesticides. Yet today his financial knowledge is of limited use.
Heffington has been sidelined from the cotton futures market, thanks to a surge of financial speculators into the market, which originally was designed to protect farmers such as him against price shifts.
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The colorful "open outcry" trading in the "pits" of the Chicago futures exchanges and the bell-ringing opening of trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have long dominated the public perception of how those markets operate. Those exchanges are now in the midst of radical changes that will soon be erasing those images. Exchange trading floors are fast fading into history as the trading of stocks and derivative instruments moves to electronic communications networks (ECNs) that simply match trades by computers through algorithms. The amazing growth of the ECNs and their displacement of the traditional exchanges have raised regulatory concerns. The securities industry provides a good example of future trends in the business aspects of the commodities industry while the commod...
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CHICAGO -- TruMarx Data Partners has announced that it has accepted investment from Dr. James Newsome, Mark B. Fisher, and Robert Green, who have been...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Tom Edwards, Public Information Office, +1-301-763-3030/ 763-3762 (fax), pio@census.gov
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DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/df1a03/2010_worldwide_sec) has announced the addition of the "2010 Worldwid...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. futures regulator is considering delaying a new requirement that clearinghouses and their members report large swap positions in nearly 50 commodities so the industry can collect the required data.
On July 7, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission finalized enhanced reporting requirements for major traders in physical swaps. The CFTC rule requires clearinghouses, their members and swap dealers to make daily reports of large swaps positions in 46 commodities.
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DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/753bcf/2010_u_s_securiti) has announced the addition of the "2010 U.S. Secu...
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...Businesses covered in this industry include investment clubs, commodity contract pool ...Commodities Markets. While stocks, bonds, and mutual funds are...
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DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/494556/technology_options) has announced the addition of the "Tech...