Posts Tagged ‘oil prices and speculation’

In Defense of Financial Speculators

By Kristina Zurla Landgraf • Feb 25th, 2010 • Category: Trader Viewpoints

Speculators have been easy scapegoats when markets are in distress or bubbles develop. Financier George  Soros, Washington Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell and others are pressing for limits on speculative trading and a potential ban on speculation in credit default swap (CDS) markets. On February 23, the SEC voted to restrict short sales in a company’s [...]


CFTC Testimony on Speculation, Position Limits Begins

By Kristina Zurla Landgraf • Jul 28th, 2009 • Category: Market Updates, Trader Viewpoints

Three days of CFTC hearings are underway on the topic of speculation in the futures markets, and the impact on market pricing. “This hearing is an opportunity to determine how speculative position limits could be used to address excessive speculation, not how we can eliminate speculation,” said CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler, adding that the CFTC [...]