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• Energy Trading Update

  30 Jun 2009

  Oil prices rose sharply on Monday, as fresh attacks by Nigerian militants on oil installations took the markets by surprise.

• Metals Market Update

  30 Jun 2009

  Metal prices finished mixed on Monday, with copper managing to close up with a modest gain, although the rest of the group did not follow

• Energy Trading Update

  17 Jun 2009

  Energy prices ended fractionally lower on Tuesday in very quiet trading.

• Newedge To Support ELX Exchange

  1 Jul 2009

  Futures broker Newedge Financial will become a futures commission merchant for electronic futures exchange ELX Futures

• CFTC To Ensure Fair Futures Markets

  1 Jul 2009

  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will ensure fair operations of futures markets for oil agriculture currencies and interest rates said the agencys Chairman Gary Gensler

• Excessive Speculation In Markets Target of CFTC

  30 Jun 2009

• Bache Commodities Group Launches Green Commodity Index (Business Wire)

  30 Jun 2009

  NEW YORK & LONDON----Bache Commodities Group launched today the Bache Commodity Green IndexSM to offer investors a tool to invest in commodities with an environmental focus. Bache Commodities Group is the commodities and financial derivatives business of Prudential Financial, Inc. .

• Viteos Starts Managed Accounts Platform

  29 Jun 2009

  Viteos Fund Services has unveiled an administration platform for managed accounts

• CFTC Chief Blames Hedge Funds For ‘Run On Liquidity’

  25 Jun 2009

  The newly-appointed head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is calling for stricter rules covering hedge funds, blaming them for “destabilizing” the global financial system.

• CFTC's Gensler Urges Controls on Derivatives, Hedge Funds

  24 Jun 2009

• CFTC: Swaps dealers must register and open books

  24 Jun 2009

  WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - All derivatives dealers should have capital and leverage limits, be subject to new fraud penalties, reporting and recordkeeping regulations, said a key regulator on Wednesday. "By fully regulating the institutions that trade or hold themselves out to the public as derivative dealers we ensure that all OTC products, both standardized and customized, are subject to robust oversight," Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler told the Managed Funds Association in Chicago. However, Gensler did not make clear whether the regulation should come from the CFTC, which oversees futures derivatives, the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is responsible for securities derivatives, or the Federal Reserve, which oversees the investment banks where most dealers are based. In addition to dealers, Gensler is calling on new regulation for derivative traders. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

• Excessive speculation found in wheat market

  24 Jun 2009

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commodity index traders had snapped up more than 200,000 wheat contracts by mid-2008 that helped fuel last year's record jump in prices, which ended up raising costs for both industry and consumers, according to a year-long bipartisan Senate probe.

• Cogo Wolf Launches Highly-Liquid Fund Of Hedge Funds

  22 Jun 2009

  Alternative investment firm Cogo Wolf Asset Management has launched a fund of hedge funds, the Cogo Wolf Trimaran Liquidity Fund. The new vehicle is being managed by co-chief investment officers and managing partners Christopher Wolf and Giles Conway-Gordon. According to the San Francisco-based firm, the highly-liquid fund offers complete transparency and targets 16-18% net return with expected volatility of 6-8% without the use of leverage.

CTA Rankings for Jul 09*

1. Pearlman, Silver Conservative
2. Pardo Capital, XT-99
3. EuroCapital, Eurofin
4. Becker, Program 1
5. RAM Aggressive
6. Taylor Growth Proprietary
7. Clarke, Worldwide
8. MAD Group, Aggressive Growth
9. Heyden&Steindl, Tomac 2
10. TYL, Spartan