Many of the new regulations stemming from the Dodd-Frank bill apply to derivative markets and their participants. Unintended consequences abound, but there is one with particular significance for agricultural futures and the entities that use them to manage risk.Seldom if ever does a significant piece of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by the president avoid having some unexpected and unintended consequences. Even the most thorough vetting by members, congressional staff, subcommittee and committee hearings, administrative agencies and private analysts cannot identify every possible outcome from any legislation. However, if there was a scorecard kept on the number of unintended consequences from specific legislation enact...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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