UNG Fighting Regulators As US regulators attempt to crackdown on speculation in commodities, the US natural gas fund (UNG) is considering a number of options to “get ahead of the process.&rdquo

Greetings from New York where here, and throughout the country, a big to-do is being made over the Commodities Futures Trading Commission confessing that “speculation” may have had someth

The market has been very slow as of late as traders take profits and await second quarter earnings reports. The summer doldrums will end next week as traders are greeted with the official start of ea

Goldman Sachs (GS) starts off the earnings round for financials next Tuesday. According to Bank of America analyst Guy Moszkowski, the firm is on track to beat its 2008 trading-revenue record by as m

"Maybe something, maybe nothing," may simply be the post-Holiday summer blahs but I can't shake the sense that states will soon drop more shoes than Imelda Marcos. Whether that's

In sea of red a few of the commodity and futures exchanges are seeing green on hopes that an announcement, which could come as soon as after the close today, will push to have certain derivatives lis

Open interest in copper has been rising since early December 2008. Click to enlargeUntil recently, the rise in open interest (black dotted line) was driven by commercial traders (blue line in ch

Ask any PGA golfer, and he will tell you that bad shots often lead to even worse shots. This is because the first shot leaves you in a worse position than before, perhaps behind a tree, in thick roug

The Panic of ‘08 has nearly every investor convinced that the world is coming to an end. With the financial system shaken to its core, who can blame them? But is the world really coming to an e

I hate to say I told you so... But, I told you so. A year ago, in our monthly (July 2007) report, my firm stated:“We are concerned that SEC Chairman Cox is a bit premature