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Announcement — CFTC Will Fix, Not End, Trader Reports, citing record comments

Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will improve, rather than eliminate, weekly reports on traders' holdings in the $3.2 trillion-a-day U.S. futures markets after getting a record number of letters urging continuation... [read entire article]

Commentary on CFTC Announcement - By Robert James Deadman

Commitments of Traders in the News

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission releases information about large trader and institutional positions in the resource commodity markets. Here's the current report.

Big pension and endowment funds that invest in commodities by modeling their exposure on popular indexes have rapidly increased their purchases of crude oil in recent months, a MarketWatch analysis of regulatory data shows.

In order to determine that index investors, such as big pension funds, have increased their holdings in oil this year, MarketWatch used publicly available data on their holdings in other commodities and the make-up of two major commodities indexes that include oil.

Index investors hike stake in oil as prices rise

A weak tone in the U.S. dollar coupled with stronger crude oil enabled gold to post a gain Tuesday, although the metal finished shy of the 50- and 100-day moving averages.

June 22 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell more than $2 a barrel and gasoline tumbled after the World Bank said the global recession will be deeper than forecast, bolstering concern that fuel consumption will remain depressed.

CANBERRA (Dow Jones)--Australia's raw sugar production next fiscal year will fall 4.3% to 4.43 million metric tons from 4.63 million tons this year, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, or Abare, forecast Tuesday.

June 22 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell for a second day after the World Bank said the global recession will be deeper than expected, stoking concerns that fuel demand will remain depressed.

June 22 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil was little changed in New York after falling on concerns that U.S. gasoline stockpiles will increase because of weak demand during the recession.

By Andrew Johnson Jr. CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures are seen starting Monday's day session lower, pressured by bearish outside market influences and improved crop weather outlooks.