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HSBC maintains metals dominance
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Hedge funds drive activity
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A hard nut to crack
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Oil price falls despite Opec cut
Oil prices fell Friday afternoon despite a decision by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to rein in current oversupply, effectively taking 1 million barrels a day off the market.
The famous fifty
Oil
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Energy users demand trading oversight
The debate continues over whether speculative traders are distorting energy prices, following a letter sent by the Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) to Congress last week. “Energy markets have changed drastically, and regulatory oversight,…
Barclays to issue commodity-backed CDO
Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of London-based Barclays Bank, is to issue a synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO), backed by a series of commodity swaps.
Clear intentions
Oil
Opening up to oil
Commodities
Nymex European launch imminent
Nymex aims to launch an open outcry exchange in Europe, most likely initially in Dublin using Nybot’s Finex facilities, according to president James Newsome.
The windy city rules
The Chicago Climate Exchange is going from strength to strength if its new initiatives,new members and volumes are anything to go by. Here PaulLyon talks to CCX founderRichard Sandor about the exchange’s future
End of the gold rush
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James Newsome
Power
The oil baron whodigs gold
HFR talks to Daniel Masters of Global Advisors about prospecting for profit as the fissures open up in oil, energy and metals prices
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US regulator doles out Enron fines
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has hit Enron and its former trader Hunter Shively with $35 million and $300,000 in civil fines respectively for gas price manipulation.
Newsome leaves CFTC to head up Nymex
James Newsome has quit as chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to head up the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex). Newsome’s resignation is effective from July 23, and he will be president of Nymex from August 2, replacing Bo…
Newsome leaves CFTC to head up Nymex
James Newsome has quit as chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to head up the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), a CFTC spokesman told RiskNews’ sister publication Energy Risk . Newsome’s resignation is effective from July 23…
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