Sentence examples for the commodity future from inspiring English sources
Dec. 12, 2000: Pressure on Gramm Stacy Carey, an executive at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, sends the organization's members, including Enron, an update on the negotiations over the Commodity Future Modernization Act in the final days before Congress adjourns.
In essence, speculators are the only voluntary players in the commodity futures markets.
The commodity futures commission will increase its oversight of energy and over-the-counter derivatives trading.
"Segregation of customer funds is the core foundation of customer protection in the commodity futures and swaps markets".
"This regulator has precious little credibility right now," the senator said, referring to the commodity futures commission.
Before it was a Beltway epithet, "speculator" was simply a type of trader in the commodity futures markets.
Its findings will be used by a group of advisers to the S.E.C. and the commodity futures commission, which will make policy recommendations.
And across the heartland, American farmers are enjoying record incomes, but losing sleep over rising expenses and turbulence in the commodity futures markets.
The stage of the speculation that is alarming Washington is the commodity futures market, which trades a financial derivative called a futures contract, an agreement for the future delivery of a fixed amount of a commodity at a certain price.
The commodity futures act, in addition to allowing unregulated trading of financial derivatives, included language advocated by Enron that largely exempted the company from regulation of its energy trading on electronic commodity markets, like its once-popular Enron Online.
As a result, billions of dollars have poured into the commodity futures market — from pension funds, endowments and a host of other institutional investors — through the new conduit of commodity index funds.
