Picture this: You see the corn market offering a profitable futures price. You’re booking your inputs, so you don’t want to tie up cash for a margin call. Plus, committing to your grain delivery time ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - New rules adopted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission governing commodity options and defining statutory terms for over-the-counter swaps go into effect June 26. Adopted at ...

Did public pension funds cause an energy price bubble? More than a few noteworthy investors, George Soros among them, believed there was, indeed, a correlation between crude oil prices running up ...

Three US House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats have asked the CFTC questions about the potential impact of unregulated energy commodity swaps and futures on prices. WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 27-- ...

Learn how the Commodity Exchange Act governs U.S. commodities and futures trading, its role in financial markets, and the evolving challenge of cryptocurrency regulation.

When it comes to commodities, companies are concerned about price fluctuations and how those fluctuations affect gross margins and budgets. As companies look to protect their cost structure, buyers ...

A swap dealer was fined US $12 million by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for a host of purported noncompliance issues. It was also sanctioned for allegedly not disclosing in two annual chief ...

The top U.S. commodities regulator Tuesday approved a rule that will require traders to report over-the-counter swaps based on raw materials including oil and corn, a prelude to trading limits.

HOUSTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Big energy companies like Royal Dutch Shell and commodity merchants like Cargill [CARG.UL] have a simple argument in pushing back against looming new swap market rules: ...