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- Market forecaster for Nov. 5: CME buying the competition
- By Brian Hoops, president, Midwest Market Solutions Inc. | 0 comments | @11-06-12
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News that the CME Group will acquire the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) barely made a ripple in the commodity news. Very few media reports mentioned it and even fewer producers and traders care. I have done several media ...
- One Safety Net That Needs to Shrink
- By GRETCHEN MORGENSON | @11-05-12
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ELECTION Day is upon us, and neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney has really addressed one of the nation's most pressing economic issues: the risk that one day taxpayers might have to bail out swashbuckling financial institutions again.
Granted, the economic pain many are feeling now — the snail's ...
- High-frequency trading ruining market fairness
- From Internet | @11-02-12
- If it's a bad idea to play with matches, it's worse to play with a blowtorch in a fireworks factory.
That's what farmers and ranchers do when they price cattle, corn and cotton in markets dominated by “high-frequency trading” (HFT), trading driven by computers running algorithms done by money managers who ...
- U.S. judge thwarts commodity market reform
- By Dr. Steve Suppan | @11-02-12
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Last week a U.S. federal judge struck down a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rule designed to prevent excessive speculation in agricultural and non-agricultural commodities by Wall Street and its biggest corporate clients. A growing body of peer-reviewed research and public interest analysis ...
- Public trust is a terrible thing to waste
- From Internet | @11-02-12
- When it comes to public policy support and trust, the most important asset that farmers have going for them is credibility with the general public. Evidence of this support can be seen in the historical bipartisanship that has characterized the passage of farm bill legislation, despite the fact that farmers ...
- Crop Insurance in 2012
- From Internet | @11-02-12
- Crop insurance could make large payments in 2012 as low yields become increasingly likely as a result of hot, dry growing conditions. Roughly 60% of the corn acres and 50% of soybean acres in Illinois is insured at high coverage levels with revenue products containing guarantee increase provisions. These acres ...
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