Futures Rout Accelerates: Emergency Fed Announcement Possible

by ZH

The last time we had a modestly comparable collapse in overnight trading, a certain futures trader from SocGen whose gimmickry had been uncovered, caused the Fed to lower its Fed Funds rate in an emergency meeting first thing in the morning. Which is why we wonder, should the ongoing rout accelerate, to an extent driven by the decimation in the Korean Kospi, down -9.5% [...]

Eric Cantor Promises Oil Speculators That Republicans Will Block Financial Regulation

Lee Fang, ThinkProgress http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/18/…l-speculators/

Yesterday morning, House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) visited the Chicago headquarters of the CME Group, “the world’slargest owner and operator” of private exchanges for derivatives products. CME Group specializes in a number of markets, including trading futures contracts for various blends of crude oil and food commodities. Cantor met with executives, and at one point, gave brief remarks before CME [...]

Silver futures see record trading volume, 26 April 2011, by Myra P. Saefong – San Francisco (MarketWatch)

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/silver-futures-see-record-trading-volume-2011-04-26

Excerpt:

Silver futures saw record trading volume on Monday, the CME Group said in a press release Tuesday.

On Monday, trading of silver futures reached 319,204 contracts, surpassing the prior record of 201,216 contracts set on Nov. 9, 2010, the CME said.

Open interest in silver options also reached a record of 240,344 contracts, versus the prior record of 235,992 contracts set on April 21, 2011.

“Silver futures have demonstrated rapid growth during [...]