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POPSU.S. Considers Curbs on Speculative Trading of Oil 
I am a little weary of this step in the regulation of futures markets. Though I do not have the complete information before me and I do realize the vital interest there is in price stability I question the role of government to overly regulate the energy futures market as futures markets do serve a function that is beneficial to more than the few. Though what that benefit is escapes me at the moment. In fact the price swings of late I’d say have little to do with futures markets and more to do with expected price fluctuations of a dwindling resource, i.e. this is an indicator that we have reached peak oil. There was a study (hey if you are interested in the details, let me know) that came out a few years back that showed the price curve of a commodity that suddenly reached the point of being a dwindling resource, meaning that new demand was coming on at a higher rate than supply. Contrary to expectations the price did not skyrocket forever but went through wild gyrations
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POPSBond Futures : Interest Rate Futures : by BondFuturesTrading.com Everything you ever wanted to know about CBOT interest rate futures markets. Treasury bond futures contracts are an important part of learning how to trade futures and have their own interest rate fundamentals and are important to people who are interested in how interest rate hedging and government bond futures work.
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POPSDerivates Notionals by Type of User Insured Commercial Banks After a stint as Chief Economist at the World Bank, Mr. Summers brought this “theory” to Washington mid-way through the first Clinton Administration as Under Secretary of Treasury to Robert Rubin where he began laying the groundwork – with co-conspirators Greenspan, Rubin and Clinton - for the implementation of his “theoretical research”: Gold price suppression began in earnest concurrently with changes in how the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency begins records the mushrooming growth of derivatives :
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POPS Oil Falls Below $64 As Economy Outweighs OPEC News that Japan's Nippon Oil plans a 15 percent cut in November crude oil refining, from a year earlier and data showing China's September oil demand growth was its slowest in 10 months also weighed on oil prices. Despite OPEC's Friday decision to cut back on production, oil prices have continued to slide. Kuwait's oil minister said OPEC was concerned about an oil price fall after it cut output but it would take time to decide if the cut was sufficient, while Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said OPEC should create a crude price band between $70 and $90 per barrel. Separately, crude oil speculators on the New York Mercantile Exchange shifted to a net long position while open interest dropped in the week to October 21, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission reported on Friday.
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POPSBlack Monday: Global Financial Crisis in Pictures Look: The Bailout did not stop this! The only things looking good are gold (soaring), government bonds (safer investments), the dollar (which has rebounded) and oil prices (which are now below 90 buck a barrel; hopefully $3 per gallon gas is coming soon; but we want 1.50 per gallon like when Bush and the war-spending neocons seized power, massively increasing government spending and national debt). World stock markets have plunged after government bank bail-outs in the US and Europe failed to stem fears of slower global economic growth. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones fell 370 points, ending below 10,000 for the first time since 2004. UK and French indexes also suffered big falls. For a definition of futures index in these charts go here.
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