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Daily Futures Spotlight 01/20/2006
eTV Futures – 25-year highs in Sugar! Not since 1981 when Ronald Reagan was in the White House, and Disco was on its way out were Sugar prices this high. The lead-month March contract traded as high as 17.25 today as commodity funds, speculators, and trade houses

Exotic currencies bear fruit in otherwise barren landscape
Financial Times, UK - Jan 25, 2006 Only one of the four portfolios – yield – which involves buying higher-yielding currencies and shorting lower-yielding ones, made money last year, returning

Currencies: Rate outlook helps dollar and euro rise against yen
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 26, 2006 NEW YORK The yen fell on Wednesday against other major currencies amid expectations that Japan's interest-rate gap with the United States and Europe would widen

Currencies: Strong US data underpin dollar
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 27, 2006 NEW YORK The dollar rose against the euro on Friday on expectations that the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates after a measure of inflation

SBV removes licence requirement on currency
VietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - Jan 27, 2006 The SBV on January 25 released Dispatch 497 announcing that individuals no longer need permission to bring large amounts of foreign currencies abroad.

UPDATE 1-Canada Tories don't see currencies as policy tool
Reuters - Jan 24, 2006 companies complain they have been hit hard by a steep appreciation in the Canadian dollar, which is up 30 percent against other major currencies since 2002

Currencies: Fears over US prices give a lift to the dollar
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 25, 2006 NEW YORK The dollar rose against the euro on Tuesday as Mark Olson, a Federal Reserve governor, said US policy makers were watching "very carefully" for signs

CURRENCIES: Dollar Edges Lower On Strength In Overseas Data
Business Online, UK - Jan 25, 2006 By Leslie Wines. NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The US dollar lost strength against the euro in the early going Wednesday, after the German

OnlineFX can Provide a Fully Co-Branded, Multi-Currency
PR Web (press release), WA - 18 hours ago For websites that involves customers having to deal in alternate currencies then OnlineFX have developed a unique tool that simultaneously calculates the

South African rand weaker against major currencies
Xinhua, China - Jan 24, 2006 24 (Xinhuanet) — The South African rand was weaker against major currencies in late afternoon trade on Tuesday after stop losses were triggered through the

Circulation of forged currencies on rise
Newindpress, India - Jan 24, 2006 One of the Rs 1,000 currencies he handed over to the cashier was a counterfeit. The KSEB office here also had refused to accept

CME Cattle Review: Live Cattle Lower; Commodities Decline 
CattleNetwork.com - Jan 18 2:21 PM
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)–A global decline in most commodity prices was at least partially responsible for lower Chicago Mercantile Exchange live- and feeder-cattle futures prices Wednesday.Save to My Web

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CBOT traders had record longs in 10-yr notes -CFTC
Reuters - 6 hours ago The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said large speculators such as hedge funds had a net long in CBOT 10-year notes of 163,267 contracts as of Tuesday, up

CFTC member says no fund investigation underway
Reuters - Jan 26, 2006 HOUSTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) The US Commodities Futures Trading Commission in not conducting a formal investigation of speculative funds in the oil futures markets

Futures Closing Bell 01/26/2006
eTV Futures, NY - Jan 26, 2006 March Soybeans closed at 573.00, up 6 cents. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.

Russia's RTS plans to launch weather futures trading
PRIME-TASS (subscription), Russia - Jan 19, 2006 MOSCOW, Jan 19 (Prime-Tass) — While all over Russia temperatures fall below minus 25 degrees Centigrade Russia's RTS Stock Exchange has started preparing to

Soybean oil futures trading starts
China Daily, China - Jan 9, 2006 China launched soybean oil futures trading at Dalian Commodities Exchange in the northeastern Liaoning Province Monday morning.

The main street of futures trading
Ventura County Star (subscription), CA - Jan 13, 2006 The minimum deposit for initiating trades is $100. HedgeStreet is subject to the oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Punjab turning into commodity derivatives hub
Sify, India - Jan 24, 2006 Kochi: Punjab is progressing from being the wheat bowl of the country to the commodity futures trading hub. Some commodity futures

ICE Futures Receives Go Ahead on WTI Crude Futures From Regulator
Yahoo! News (press release) - 13 hours ago ICE conducts its markets for futures trading through its regulated subsidiary, ICE Futures (formerly the International Petroleum Exchange, or IPE), which is

Soybean oil futures trading launched at Dalian Exchange
Xinhua, China - Jan 9, 2006 DALIAN, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) — China launched soybean oil futures trading at Dalian Commodities Exchange in the northeastern Liaoning Province Monday morning.