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...fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998 to impose some kind of federal oversight on the over-the-counter derivatives market, and was thwarted by a less-than-holy alliance of anti-regulation types in Congress and colleagues in the Clinton administration who didn't want to see the CFTC get authority over a business then dominated by banks...
...prefect by arguing that the store was a cultural landmark, not just a commercial one. But the tribunal upheld a complaint brought by a national federation representing small clothing retailers and a French Christian labor union. The federation took issue with what it sees as unfair competition, while the CFTC union - which doesn't represent any workers at the Louis Vuitton store - insists that Sunday should be a day of rest. "The little luggage store on the Champs Elysées is not above the law," crowed a sarcastic CFTC press release. Yves Carcelle, Louis Vuitton's president, slammed...
Joseph B. Dial, former commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has represented the CFTC at conferences around the world...
...agency favored by some to become a superregulator is the Federal Reserve, but the Chicago exchanges oppose that move on the ground that they would no longer have their own advocate. At present, the CFTC sticks up for the Chicago markets whenever the SEC tries to fence them in. Earlier this month the CFTC approved two new forms of stock-index contracts -- the first authorized since the crash -- bringing the total number to 18. The Chicago Merc hopes to get approval soon for a futures contract to be based on the Tokyo exchange's Nikkei 225 stock index...
...Small investors have been unimpressed by the incremental steps ((toward reform)) taken thus far." Wisconsin's William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has introduced legislation that would impose ^ many of the Brady group's recommendations, including tighter margins and joint supervision of futures markets by the Fed, CFTC...