They want their earnings to move gradually upwards, not to jerk around, and they do not want the fact that they use volatile financial instruments to be reflected in their results, even if the volatility is real.
The Federal Reserve is also considering barring banks from trading in physical commodities (as opposed to derivatives tied to commodities).In principle, banks are still free to "make markets" by selling stocks, bonds and the like to their customers, but new capital rules have made it harder for them to hold big stockpiles of corporate bonds and other volatile financial instruments.
But pretty obviously if instead you're a financier who wants to make big risky bets on the price swings of volatile financial instruments or indirectly drive up the price of gasoline, then you want the CFTC to remain underfunded and unfocused.
However, these compounds are non-volatile and instruments designed for the analysis of volatile compounds would not detect them.
Because of the lack of transparency, they cannot see whether these volatile new debt instruments are in safe hands or how they will behave in a crisis when everyone is heading for the exits.
Candidates and parties who become the vehicles of angry outsiders, as Mitt Romney is now, don't really have control of their own campaigns anymore; to a large extent, they are the instruments of volatile forces beyond their own reckoning.
From there, it traveled to many of the continent's most volatile locales, becoming an instrument of violence in some of Africa's ugliest wars and for brutal regimes.
An instrument to remove volatile material from aerosol particles by thermal desorption is presented.
Also, issues important for quantitative measurements of volatile organic compounds using this instrument were investigated.
