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SEC takes aim at zombie stocks

As it turns out, stocks can have long after-lives, which is often anything but heaven for end customers. Long after companies file for bankruptcy, stop filing SEC disclosures and even cease operations, their stocks continue to trade, becoming fodder in too many cases for scam artists and speculato

Forex market volume soars

Foreign exchange market volume has been rising year over year, but the extent of the surge has been somewhat elusive. A triennial report from the Bank for International Settlements released this month puts some numbers on the growth. Average daily trading volumes in forex has hit $4 trillion

Carbon trading: A big win for Wall Street?

Carbon trading--while we tend to speak about it as a future development--is already a reality, to some extent. The Kyoto Protocol established a mechanism for trading that includes all signatories; recall that the United States did not sign. Europe and Japan also have such mechanisms. In the Un

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley lead in commodities

We noted recently that hedging commodities poses big risks for traditional hedgers, ag companies, airlines, energy companies and the like. Big farm corporation Bunge stands as a cautionary tale. There is indeed a fine line between hedgers and speculators at times. But for the Wall Street deale

Double-edged sword: Rising commodities prices

We tend to think of big farm-type companies as hedgers, who take the other side of bets waged by hedge funds . But when you get down to this, there's a fine line between corporate hedgers and raw speculators. There are plenty of corporate treasury employees who have been burned by currency "hed