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CME Lowers Energy & Metals Margin Trading Requirements (CME, GLD, USO, SLV, JJC)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 5:37 pm

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is going to make it cheaper for traders to trade energy and metals futures, something which could make it easier and cheaper for traders, speculators, ...
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Media Digest (2/3/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 6:47 am

The U.S. indicts Swiss bank Wegelin on tax evasion charges. (Reuters) Fed president Richard Fisher says there is no need for QE3. (Reuters) Panasonic posts a quarterly loss of $2.6 ...
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Top Earnings Previews For Thursday (BZH, PHM, BX, CME, DOW, GNW, GILD, IP, K, MA, MRK, RCL, HOT, TRMB, VRTX, YRCW)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 3:43 pm

Earnings season is still upon us.  There are going to be many big earnings reports Thursday and we would consider Thursday as the climax for the companies reporting their normal ...
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Media Digest (12/14/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 14, 2011 at 6:24 am

A CME (NASDAQ: CME) executive says Jon Corzine knew about money that MF Global transferred to European accounts. (Reuters) Accounting problems at Olympus may make it a takeover target. (Reuters) Italian bond ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/14/2011) Corzine Charges, Apple Founding

Posted: December 14, 2011 at 6:24 am

Officials at CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) have given the Justice Department documents that may prove former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine knew his firm lent customer money to its operations in ...
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The End of MF Global (MF, CME, ICE)

Posted: October 31, 2011 at 9:51 am

MF Global Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: MF) has been halted pending news this Monday.  Workers may be allowed into the offices, but the firm is being cut off from transacting business. ...
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Comex Raises Copper Margin Requirements — Gold & Silver Next? (CME, FCX, SCCO, NEM, ABX, SLW, JJC, GLD, GDX, GDXJ, SIL)

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 12:43 pm

In what appears to be a counterintuitive move, CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) today raised its margin requirements for copper futures contracts. The requirement rose by 15%, from $6,750 to $7,763 ...
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Media Digest (9/30/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 30, 2011 at 6:17 am

The federal government begins to probe the accounting of several Chinese companies. (Reuters) EU markets to decline more this quarter than in any other since 2008. (Reuters) Bank of America ...
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Another Merger In Exchanges (CBOE, CME, NYX, NDAQ)

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 11:23 am

Most investors either do not know of the National Stock Exchange or they forgot about the Cincinnati Stock Exchange.  This was became the first all-electronic exchange in the U.S., back ...
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Media Digest (8/30/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 6:22 am

Foreign oil companies may have to give up natural gas rights in Iraq. (Reuters) Several large pharma firms are in the early stages of an attempt to find new and ...
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Comex Raises Margin on Gold Again (CME, GLD, IAU, GDX, GDXJ)

Posted: August 25, 2011 at 9:08 am

Just two weeks after raising margin requirements on its 100-ounce gold contract, CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) has bumped the requirement again by 27%. It now costs a non-commercial (speculative) ...
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Media Digest (8/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes

Posted: August 25, 2011 at 6:15 am

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and will be chairman. Tim Cook to take over as CEO. (Reuters) Gold falls sharply and may be hurt by CME ...
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Mr. Dumas Idea of the Day: E.U. Financial Transaction Tax (NYX, NDAQ, CME, ICE)

Posted: August 16, 2011 at 1:47 pm

If you can count on the Europeans to do one thing, it is to invent new taxation methods regardless of whether or not it makes sense.  After Merkel and Sarkozy ...
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Why Higher Gold Margins Do Not Matter to Gold Prices (CME, GLD, IAU, GDX, GDXJ)

Posted: August 11, 2011 at 11:14 am

Less than two months ago, CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) lowered margins on its 100-ounce Comex gold contracts in what the company said was part of its "normal review of ...
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Commodities Watch: Comex Lowers Gold Margins, Raises Some Ags (CME, GLD, IAU, MOO, DBA)

Posted: June 17, 2011 at 12:52 pm

The CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) has announced changes to its margin requirements for a number of commodities. The changes, some increases and some decreases, cover a variety of ...
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