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<title>Chicago Climate Futures Exchange Successfully Lists Futures Contracts Based On Emission Allowances Under Anticipated U.S. Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Cap-And-Trade Program - Trades Executed In Contracts Expiring In 2013, 2014 And 2</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199385258</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 06:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  federal greenhouse gas emission reduction mandate is established. Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE), a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Designated Contract Market, announces the successful listing of new Carbon Financial Instrument-U.S. Allowance  ...
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<title>Leave fixes to new administration</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199368966</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 04:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a task force including the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would close loopholes in their oversight of such complex products as credit default swaps.  ...
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<title>Robert Scheer: Change We Can Bank On</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199268092</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 16:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  within the Clinton administration came from Brooksley E. Born who, as head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, dared defy Summers and Rubin, as well as Greenspan. In frequent appearances before Congress,  ...
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<title>Criteria for Treasury</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199266591</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 16:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  New York Stock Exchange (1995 to 2000), a Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1991 to 1995), and Research Director, Deputy Counsel and Counsel to Kansas Republican Senate  ...
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<title>Rogue gas trader admits to fraud</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199203899</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 10:20 GMT</pubDate>
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...  criminal investigation, but his legal troubles are far from over. Separately yesterday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed its own five-count complaint in U.S. District Court charging Lee with &quot;mismarking&quot; and  ...
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<title>Change we can bank on</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199192391</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 08:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  within the Clinton administration came from Brooksley E. Born who, as head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, dared defy Summers and Rubin, as well as Greenspan. In frequent appearances before Congress,  ...
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<title>Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse? Will an Obama Administration Reverse the Tide?</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199189292</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 08:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and food staples. &quot;The act, he declared, would ensure that neither the nor the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( ) got into the business of regulating newfangled financial products called swapsand would  ...
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<title>Can fox fix the henhouse?</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199174287</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 06:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a task force including the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would close loopholes in their oversight of such complex products as credit default swaps.  ...
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<title>U.S. regulators bring charges against former BMO trader</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199163794</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 05:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Lee has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges relating to this matter. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission also separately announced the filing of civil lawsuits in  ...
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<title>The Weekly Option Volatility Report for November 18th, 2008</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199163462</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 05:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  presented herein has not been designed to meet the rigorous standards set by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for disclosure statements concerning the risks involved in trading futures or options on futures.  ...
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<title>SEC Charges Banker &amp; Brokerage Executives With Multi-Million Dollars Financial Fraud</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199151426</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 04:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  York (USAO), the New York County District Attorneys Office (NYCDA), and the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) also filed parallel criminal and regulatory charges today arising from the same conduct  ...
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<title>Former trader pleads guilty in fraud that cost BMO $850-million</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199142327</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 02:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  only one brokerage firm: Optionable, says the indictment against Mr. Lee. Additionally, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission laid civil charges against Mr. Lee, Mr. Cassidy, Optionable, and another of its former  ...
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<title>SEC accuses former BMO trader of inflating bank&#39;&#39;s trading portfolio (Former-BMO-Trader-Cha)</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199135004</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 01:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  laws. He did not admit or deny wrongdoing in the civil settlement. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in a separate action, announced similar charges against Lee, Cassidy and O&amp;#180Connor. The SEC&amp;#180s  ...
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<title>Gold futures end slightly lower as stocks fall</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199132733</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 00:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  they increased their short positions by 2,421, according to latest data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Bugs Index, which tracks the share prices of major companies, lost 3.2% to finish  ...
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<title>Summers may be off of Treasury short list</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199131860</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 00:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and expert on urban issues as well as fiscal, monetary and social policy; former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairwoman Brooksley Born, who tried to regulate credit default swaps but was blocked by  ...
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