What does it mean for the granddaddy of them all the CME Group (NYSE: CME)?
The CME Group, which owns the exchanges, has contingency plans in case of weather-related damages.
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This is why the CME Group ( CME) is being watched for a potential counter-offer.
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News the CME Group again raised its margin requirements for gold also prompted long liquidation in the futures market.
Perhaps the biggest culprit here is the action of the CME Group Ltd.
The month of December, however, was not so great for the CME Group.
Silver remains hamstrung by the high margins the CME Group set earlier this year when prices were extremely volatile, Streible said.
No one but the CME Group will say that out loud.
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The cme Group is going up against its own customers--banks like Barclays, jpmorgan and Merrill Lynch, that is--by introducing over-the-counter derivatives, including interest-rate swaps.
Keep in mind that so far the CME Group has raised margins only once so far in gold, but did so several times in silver.
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Given the weakness in gold, some market watchers wonder if gold will see the same break as silver did when the CME Group raised margins.
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The CME Group timeline of events, updated most recently as sworn testimony by Terry Duffy to Congress, is the only reliable timeline out there.
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The multiple hikes of margins on silver by the CME Group finally reached the tipping point last week, as silver (and most of the other commodities) crashed.
The gold market saw strong early selling pressure Thursday in the wake of the CME Group late Wednesday announcing it will raise futures margins on gold by 27%.
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Gold traders were also worried Tuesday that the CME Group would raise futures trading margins on gold, following a similar move this week by the Hong Kong exchange.
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The CME Group hiked margin requirements four times in two weeks in silver, mandating that people who wanted to trade it needed to post a greater amount of collateral than before.
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The CME Group is the parent of the Comex.
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Gold had seen strong selling pressure on Tuesday and Wednesday, and then Wednesday afternoon the CME Group raised futures margins on gold by 27%, to prompt still more long liquidation in gold.
Margin requirements in the spotlight this week again after the CME Group, owner of futures exchange NYMEX, announced a 25% hike in collateral requirements for crude oil futures, putting initial, and short-lived, pressure on WTI and Brent prices.
Even as the state deficit persists, other big players such as the CME group, which operates the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Options and Sears are threatening to leave unless their taxes are also lowered.
Representatives from the CME Group, NYSE Euronext, the Consumer Federation of America, the Managed Funds Association and the AFL-CIO will all be there to talk about over-the-counter derivatives, the role of intermediaries and hedge funds, consumer protection and hedge funds.
The cme Group is going up against its own customers--banks like Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ), jpmorgan and Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), that is--by introducing over-the-counter derivatives, including interest-rate swaps.
With money and trading positions frozen or potentially lost, some people are feeling disappointed or even betrayed by the system and CME Group, the dominant futures exchange.
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We currently feel that the threat to CME Group from the merger of NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse is low as CME already competes with them individually and still managed to increase its average daily volume of energy contracts, its most valuable segment in our estimates, from 1.35 million contracts in 2008 to 1.67 million in 2010.
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The Futures Industry Association, a collection of futures brokers like banks and investment houses, complained that the new cme Group could have too much power.
The high-frequency trading boom he was riding had roots there with people who traded at the exchanges, now CME Group and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Like the banks, MF Global reported to a patchwork of regulators, from CME Group to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, historically a weak regulator held captive by the futures industry in other words, by CME Group ( CME).
The Chicago Merc is part of CME Group, the biggest futures-exchange operator in the U.S., handling an average of 12.5 million contracts a day.
The little egg club she joined is the now-massive CME Group, which now owns both the Chicago Merc and the New York Merc.
The safeguards only make the problem worse, the chief of CME Group, Craig Donohue has said.
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