Commodity Law

Senior representatives from the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and the business community will discuss enforcement priorities for the coming year in securities and commodities investigations and enforcement actions.

The CFTC's Division of Enforcement investigates and prosecutes alleged violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission regulations. The Commission relies on the public as an important source of information in carrying out its regulatory and enforcement responsibilities. You may contact us to report suspicious activities or transactions which may involve the trading of commodity futures contracts or commodity options.

A commodity is a good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. It is fungible, i.e. the same no matter who produces it. Examples are petroleum, notebook paper, milk or copper The price of copper is universal, and fluctuates daily based on global supply and demand. Stereo systems, on the other hand, have many aspects of product differentiation, such as the brand, the user interface, the perceived quality etc. And, the more valuable a stereo is perceived to be, the more it will cost.

An act passed in 1936 by the U.S. Government that provides federal regulation of all futures trading activities. This act replaced the Grain Futures Act of 1922.

Federal legislation enacted in 2000 that overhauled certain regulatory schemes and expelled the Shad-Johnson jurisdictional accord, which prevented single-stock futures in 1982. Another major part of the act was that it prevented the new financial products called swaps from being regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Congress created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 1974 as an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and option markets in the United States. The agency's mandate has been renewed and expanded several times since then, most recently by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. All told, FINRA oversees nearly 4,700 brokerage firms, about 167,000 branch offices and approximately 635,000 registered securities representatives.

The principal objectives of the FIA are to: # Represent industry views before Congress # Seek regulatory relief for exchanges and intermediaries in the U.S. and abroad # Promote global futures business regardless of location # Assure that the financial integrity of the markets, clearinghouses, and clearing members is always considered # Educate and inform market participants, the press, regulators, and legislative bodies.

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NYSE Euronext, the holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., was launched on April 4, 2007. As the world's leading and most liquid equities exchange group, NYSE Euronext powers the exchanging world and is comprised of equities and derivatives exchanges across the United States and Europe which trade cash equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products.

The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. As more and more first-time investors turn to the markets to help secure their futures, pay for homes, and send children to college, our investor protection mission is more compelling than ever.

Commodity Vision, Since its inception in July 2007, TAER (which was then known as MCX Academia of Economic Research, and was set up by Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited - MCX) has been bringing out a quarterly journal, Commodity Vision, in fulfilment of its diverse mission objectives, and has been disseminating its in-house research findings.

Since 1934, Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) has been the world's leading commodities and futures research, data, and analysis firm. CRB delivers information on the futures markets to interested parties via a number of data products, email and print publications, fundamental services and B2B products. It also is home of the CRB Price Index, a global benchmark for measuring commodity price movement and developed by one of CRB's founders, Bill Jiler.

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