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 ...

Manufacturers often face increasing prices on the raw materials they buy. Higher costs for raw materials can cut into a company's profit margins, especially if competition hamstrings a company's ...

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-- ...

Commodity-linked perpetual swaps emerged as the fastest-growing corners of the traditional finance (TradFi) derivatives market, according to a new report from BitMEX. The report said that weekly ...

The Edison Electric Institute (“EEI”) (an association that represents U.S. investor owned electric companies) requested the relief on the grounds that the AGNA is not a reliable metric for NFC swaps ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued two proposed rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) at an open meeting held yesterday, ...

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 ...

U.S. lender Capital One Financial Corp got a waiver from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) after plunging oil prices increased the bank's derivatives exposure above a key regulatory ...

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: ...

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 ...