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commodity futures trading commission data
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. futures regulator should be required to make public the size and nature of energy trader positions each week, a consumer advocacy group said on Wednesday [Aug. 31], the latest call to change the way market-sensitive data is handled. Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen's energy program, said in a letter the group recognizes that daily disclosure of trading position data would be problematic, so it proposed that company- specific data be released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission two weeks after the daily close.
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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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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or ``Commission'') is adopting regulations to implement certain statutory provisions enacted by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''). Specifically, in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act, the Commission is adopting rules to implement a framework for the real-time public reporting of swap transaction and pricing data for all swap transactions.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- OANDA Corporation, provider of innovative online forex trading and currency data services, applauds the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for setting new rules that will better protect consumers in the retail forex trading industry. The CFTC's new rules require forex dealers to cap leverage at 50:1 on major currency pairs. They come into effect on October 18, 2010. The 50:1 leverage cap brings the U.S. levels in line with those of other global regulators, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Japan's Financial Service Agency was the latest to introduce a 50:1 cap on August 1.
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June 2 (Bloomberg)--Whenever pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies decide they should own dollar assets that are out of favor with hedge funds, the hedge funds lose. Institutional investors bought more dollars than they've sold this year, according to State Street Corp. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp., the largest money managers for institutions. That's significant because speculators such as hedge funds raised bets against the greenback by 36 percent, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington show.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Money managers cut their net length in combined natural gas futures, options and swaps in week-ended Jan. 11, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed on Friday [Jan. 14]. Money managers, which include hedge funds, commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators, were net long 127,955 contracts through Jan. 11, down from 136,942 contracts the previous week, when group held its largest net long positions since July 6, 2010, the CFTC data showed.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') is adopting rules to implement the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'' or ``Act'') relating to . These sections of the CEA were added by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''). The rules being adopted apply to for swap data repositories, derivatives clearing organizations, designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, swap dealers, major swap participants, and swap counterparties who are neither swap dealers nor major swap participants. The recordkeeping and reporting requirements of this rule further the goals of the Dodd-Frank Act to reduce systemic risk, increase tra...
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Industry insiders who hoped that Congress' attacks on speculators in 2008 would slow down in 2009 were likely disappointed about the introduction of The Derivatives Markets Transparency Accountability Act of 2009. The legislation by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) makes it a violation of the Commodity Exchange Act to enter into a naked credit default swap (CDS), meaning that a party could not enter into a CDS contract unless it has direct exposure to financial loss, should the referenced credit event occur. Greg Zerzan, head of global public policy at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, says the legislation creates substantial disincentives for the OTC derivatives industry, which in fact has performed fairly well during the recent downturn.
...participants access to their electronic trading systems, requires tiie Commodity Futures Trading CCommission (CFTC) to provide position data on index funds and...
