Tag: Energy

Commercial market participants may get a reprieve on trade options in CFTC reauthorization

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 4413, a bill that would reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and also make some important changes to the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), including changing the definition of the term “swap” in a way that would benefit certain physical market participants. H.R. 4413, which currently is … Continue Reading

Market participants weigh in regarding CFTC’s re-proposed position limits rules

During an otherwise quiet Summer at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), agency staff hosted a public Roundtable where commercial end-users and other market participants could comment on the CFTC’s re-proposed rules to implement the position limits and aggregation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.  The common theme from end-users was that the CFTC’s proposals would … Continue Reading
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