Metals
A Look Back at Manipulation in the Metals Markets
Spoofing is Dunm (sic) and Just Plain Stupid If Bart Chilton were alive today, he would be smiling. The CFTC nailed another bank for metals futures market manipulation. According to the CFTC website, “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
Hong Kong’s Global Financial Clout Clouded by Uncertainty; LME bans drinking during work hours
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Wall Street Is Desperate for Wonks Who Can Explain the Rise of Populism
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Trading Technologies expands access to Chinese derivatives markets
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadMarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity Series 2019 Open for RegistrationJohn J. LothianWhen I was trying to figure out what I wanted to be in life, there was no such thing as the...
Cboe wins dismissal of Wall Street ‘fear gauge’ manipulation lawsuit
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesBy JLN StaffCNN reported that "The continental US just had the wettest 12 months in the 124 years on record." And now you know why CME Group just set a record for...
The LME’s Ambitious Tech Revamp – Matt Chamberlain, LME
London Metal Exchange CEO Matt Chamberlain knows that the more than 150-year-old exchange has not been at the front of the pack when it comes to technology, but he also knows that gives it an opportunity to survey what other market...
A Blockchain Solution to Gold Settlement Issues
Amid all the talk of blockchain and its applications for the financial and trading worlds, Euroclear and ItBit have gotten together to come up with what they feel is a solution to some of the problems in the gold market, in particular the settlement of unallocated...
The ETF That Glitters: An Interview with William Rhind, CEO of World Gold Trust Services
Today, November 18, is the 10-year anniversary of the launch of the SPDR Gold Shares ETF ("GLD"), the first physically-backed gold ETF to launch in the US. The ETF was an instant success, gathering $1 billion in the first three days...
Addendum to the CME Gold Futures Story
The lead story in yesterday’s John Lothian Newsletter was a Reuters report that said CME Group is planning to launch a gold futures contract in Hong Kong by year end. We were a little uncertain about how this would work, since the...
Steely Eyed: Why Mike Marley of Metalprices.com says there is a future for steel and scrap futures
Mike Marley is market intelligence correspondent for MetalPrices.com. He is the editor of the newsletter Marley’s Heavy Melt, in which he reports on metals prices, focusing in particular on steel scrap. Marley has more than 35 years'...
Garry Jones: LME’s Man of Steel … And Base Metals
Garry Jones took the reins of the London Metal Exchange (LME) at the end of September. Just over a week into the job, he spoke with John Lothian News editor-in-chief Jim Kharouf about the LME’s next steps, what’s happening with the...
Asia: Pieces Falling Into Place
Talking about Asia often leaves professionals from those regions a bit tongue-tied. When JLN decided to do a special report talking about Asia, many of those experts had the same question: “Which country? Asia is a big place.”...
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against LME and Goldman Sachs Alleging Aluminum Manipulation
An aluminum processing company has launched a class-action lawsuit against Goldman Sachs and the London Metal Exchange alleging that they conspired with each other to restrain supplies of aluminum in the LME warehouses and inflated...
Five Minutes with Marc Dulin
Marc Dulin, president and managing director of MetalPrices.com, has participated in the metals markets for more than 30 years. He spoke with JLN editor-in-chief Jim Kharouf about how metals prices are created for OTC markets as well...
Gold Reached 5000 yen/gram on TOCOM; Prices of Other Commodities Also Rise
Gold Reached 5000 yen/gram on TOCOM; Prices of Other Commodities Also Rise (Tokyo, February 4, 2013) The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc, announced that its December 2013 Gold futures contract (most active/back contract month)...
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The index providers are quietly building up enormous powers; The Dog That Didn’t Bark: What Soybean Prices Say About Trade Deal
First ReadHits & TakesBy JLN StaffToday is the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in the U.S. and JLN will not be publishing its Options Newsletter today. In fact, after JLN goes out, the team has the rest of the day off, or you could say after JLN...
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Global Futures and Options Trading Reaches Record Level in 2019; Volatility-Targeting Funds Leverage Up at Fastest Since ‘18 Rout
Observations & Insight Cboe tweeted yesterday that average daily volume for FLEX options in 2019 hit record highs, surpassing the record set in 2018 by 49,408 contracts.~MR Lead Stories Global Futures and Options Trading Reaches Record Level in 2019...
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