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Economists Support Regulation of Commodities Futures Markets in the...

June 10, 2010 RE: Regulation of Commodities Futures Markets in the Reconciliation of the Financial Reform Bill Dear Members of the Reconciliation Committee conference: As you are well aware, in the...

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CFA Press Release: Oil Speculation on Wall Street Devastates Household...

Dr. Mark Cooper, CFA Director of Research, submitted the following statement for the record of the hearing on Excessive Speculation and Compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act, being conducted by the Senate...

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AFR in the News: Protect your investments from oil shocks

"The last time we saw this speculative feeding frenzy was in 2008, when in July, amidst the meltdown in the credit and housing markets, speculators wildly ran up the price of crude oil to over $140 per...

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Comment Letter on S.E.C. Rules Change Involving Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)...

In an Oct. 23 letter, AFR urged the Securities and Exchange Commission not to to approve the organization and marketing of a commodity Exchange Traded Fund based on the storage of physical copper....

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Letter to Regulators: AFR Comments to CFTC on Improving Cross-Border...

We strongly support using Consolidated Foreign Subsidiary (FCS) status as the basis for cross border enforcement rather than the more amorphous and subjective "guaranteed subsidiary" status. ...We...

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Letter to Congress: Oppose HR 238 The Commodity End User Relief Act

"By freezing the CFTC’s funding at its current inadequate level for the next five years, this legislation exacerbates the agency’s most fundamental problem – a lack of resources to accomplish its...

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Letters to Regulators: Federal Reserve Commodity Proposal

"AFR strongly supports measures to both limit and control risks of physical commodity involvement at financial holding companies. ...Specifically, we support the new consolidated limits on the total...

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Letter to Regulators: AFR Education Fund Opposes Ineffective Rules to Control...

The AFR Education Fund sent this letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission opposing new rules that would be ineffective in preventing speculation in energy and agricultural commodities. A pdf...

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Letter to Regulators: New “Electronic Trading Risk Principles” Are Inadequate

The AFR Education Fund wrote a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regarding its proposed new “Electronic Trading Risk Principles”. The letter faulted the principles-based approach as...

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Letters to Regulators: AFREF Joins More Than 100 Groups Calling on CFTC to...

AFREF joined more than 100 groups in a letter calling on the CFTC to shut down the dangerous water futures market. The post Letters to Regulators: AFREF Joins More Than 100 Groups Calling on CFTC to...

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