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Business lessons from the Spanish flu of 1918; Kraft, Mondelez to End Fight With Regulator Over Manipulation Claims

by Matt Raebel | Mar 6, 2020

First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff The Options Industry Conference scheduled for April in Puerto Rico has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. It was the Cboe's turn to host the conference. The OCC is encouraging continued...

CFTC, Chairman Skate Away From Testifying About Kraft

by Thom Thompson | Oct 23, 2019

In a win for the CFTC, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals let the CFTC’s Commissioners breathe a bit more freely on Tuesday afternoon. The court ruled that the commissioners could not be required to provide testimony about their and the...

Documents unsealed in CFTC v Kraft

by Thom Thompson | Oct 4, 2019

On Wednesday, October 2, the Chicago federal district court unsealed 500 hundred pages of documents in the contempt of court dispute between the CFTC and Kraft Foods and Mondelez, as ordered by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The CFTC...

Kraft, Modelez Contempt Claims Against CFTC Stayed by Court (Correct)

by Jeff Bergstrom | Sep 27, 2019

John Lothian Newsletter: September 27, 2019

The CFTC’s Night Game

by Thom Thompson | Sep 23, 2019

The CFTC, and in particular its new chairman, may be playing night time hardball in the federal courts. It certainly isn’t playing the game out under the lights, though.

CFTC pulls disputed public statements from its website; Chicago titan Citadel just keeps growing

by Spencer Doar | Aug 20, 2019

Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadCFTC v. Kraft/Mondelez: Agency Reserves Its 5th Amendment Rights Against Self-Incrimination; Agrees to Remove Offending Statements From WebsiteThom Thompson - John Lothian...

Food groups’ fight over wheat manipulation re-erupts

by Spencer Doar | Aug 16, 2019

Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffThe CFTC Kraft/Mondelez Global announcement is not worth two bits. Claiming to win the case, without clarity of the specific actions that were manipulative,...