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Mixed reception to oversight efforts
Attempts by the US Senate to grant the CFTC greater market oversight have met with a mixed response, writes David Watkins
JP Morgan and Chemoil form alliance
Investment bank JP Morgan and fuel supplier Chemoil Energy have formed a strategic alliance to cross-market physical and financial energy products to their respective clients.
Overrated regulation
Risk management
Raising ETS issues
Australia emissions
A quantum shift
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Marking to mayhem
Market ups and downs have produced a roller-coaster ride for mark-to-market valuations of structured credit. Funds have responded by suspending net asset value calculations, arguing it is impossible to fairly value assets held by them under present…
How to heal a paper cut
London-based hedge fund manager Solent Capital hit the headlines in August after its SIV-lite, Mainsail II, became a victim of the liquidity squeeze in the commercial paper market, and was forced to wind down. However, the manager is looking to take…
Crude price surges past $95
Crude oil futures closed at a new record high Wednesday, driven by U.S. crude inventories dropping to the lowest level in two years and a falling dollar following the Federal Reserve’s rate cut.
Federal carbon trading bill to be "passed next year,” says lawmaker
A Democrat on the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee says that a carbon cap and trade bill could be passed in the United States as soon as the middle of 2008.
Crude oil sets new price record
Crude oil futures closed at a new record high Monday, driven by tight fundamentals, geopolitical tensions and a production setback in Mexico.
New price record for crude
Crude oil futures closed at a new record high Friday, driven by tight fundamentals and geopolitical tensions.
An outlook on own funds
GDV Comment
The policy administration challenge
GDV Technology
FTSE to calculate environmental index
Index provider FTSE and specialist environmental investment manager Impax Asset Management (Impax) have agreed a deal to further develop the Impax Environmental Technology (ET50) Index.
ODL brokers record gas oil options deal
ODL Securities brokered the largest ever deal in exchange-traded gas oil options in September.
US cannot cope with power demand: Nerc
Electricity usage in the United States is projected to grow more than twice as fast as capacity growth over the next 10 years, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has warned in its 2007 Long-Term Reliability Assessment.