Guessing the weekend box office is a game played by everyone from the people who actually made the movies to the auds lining up at the local multiplex. But the launch of two movie trading exchanges will soon enable folks to back up their forecasts with Full Article at Variety

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gary Gensler, who once supported market deregulation blamed for the recent financial meltdown, has been winning over members of Congress who had been skeptical of his ability to rein in Wall Street as the top U.S. futures regulato Full Article at Reuters

NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- OANDA Corporation, provider of innovative online forex trading and services, strongly opposes the 10:1 leverage cap that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed for Forex Dealer Members (FDMs) Full Article at Street Insider

There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605 Trillion OTC Derivatives market or just simple coincidence, I will leave it to you shrewd reader to determi Full Article at The Market Oracle

(Adds more comments from Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler.) By Natasha Brereton Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said Thursday the U.S. is determined to Full Article at FOX Business

Financial regulation reform is slowly narrowing in the U.S. Congress, where some ambitious proposals are slipping from view and others are being watered down. A new bill unveiled by Democrats on March 15 in the Senate leaves out at least one bold idea - Full Article at The Post Chronicle

* Defenders of the rapid-trading have emerged in force BOCA RATON, Fla - Big stakeholders in the U.S. futures industry appear confident that its regulator will see the value in high-frequency trading as the regulator ramps up scrutiny of the rapid-fire Full Article at TechWeb

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said here last week it will propose a rule to ensure market participants have equal access to data. The move, aimed at high-frequency traders, is another small step for a regulator that had so far said only that Full Article at International Business Times

Who is best able to protect ratepayers -- the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission? During today's OnPoint, Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of FERC, explains why he believes Congress needs to establish a "bright lin Full Article at E&E Publishing

A Florida man faces charges in a Ponzi operation that involved 100 victims nationwide A Florida man was arrested yesterday in Punta Gorda for allegedly defrauding 64 Hawaii residents in a $10 million multistate Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney Florence Nakak Full Article at Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Currencies / Euro Mar 16, 2010 - 05:23 AM So far, Greece has not sought help from its EU partners. However, an April and May deadline to repay debt back has pushed Greece to seek financing of around 20 billion euro on the bond market. Greece h Full Article at The Market Oracle

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler took his regulatory pitch for derivatives to Europe on Tuesday, urging international coordination in tightening oversight of over-the-counter markets. "Effective reform cannot be accom Full Article at FOX Business

"It's a chance to make a little nest egg," Jeff Bock, a box-office analyst for Exhibitor Relations, the firm that does the actual counting of the ticket grosses, told WalletPop. As the film world convenes this week at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas Full Article at WalletPop

M ore global investors are jumping onto the Canadian bandwagon. The Canadian dollar net long position – or bets the currency will increase further – jumped 60 per cent last week and is now the largest position held against the U.S. dollar, the Bank of No Full Article at Globe and Mail

The long Canadian dollar trade became the largest position held against the U.S. dollar in the period ending March 9, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data. Speculators now hold a total of 61,400 CAD contracts, or US$5.98-billion, Full Article at Financial Post

THE PRICE OF GOLD gave back an early 0.6% rise vs. the Dollar as New York opened for business on Monday, slipping together with world stock markets and commodity prices ahead of tomorrow's Federal Reserve interest-rate decision. The Euro and Sterlin Full Article at The Market Oracle

Due to my ongoing interest in palladium, I decided to investigate the new platinum and palladium exchange traded funds sponsored by ETF Securities. They just started trading in the US under the symbols PPLT (for platinum) and PALL (for palladium) after Full Article at The Market Oracle

Not an article, but a video: Brooksley Born’s efforts to regulate derivatives get thwarted by Rubin, Greenspan, and Larry Summers. “We didn’t truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market,” says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscur Full Article at The Big Picture

(Crain's) — A new futures exchange that will let investors bet on contracts tied to soon-to-be-released movies is making its home in Chicago. Trend Exchange aims to open trading on the contracts by mid-year, allowing investors to wager on whether movie Full Article at ChicagoBusiness.com