Invisible men lined up as heirs at commodity traders
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Abrupt leadership changes at commodity traders Trafigura and Gunvor over the past week have put a sharp light on an industry-wide challenge: shifting oversight from a...
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For oil traders, a vexing new risk: U.S. politics
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil traders are past masters at handicapping geo-political risks, from war in the Middle East to resource nationalists in Latin America. Lately, they face another confounding...
For oil traders, a vexing new risk: U.S. politics
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil traders are past masters at handicapping geo-political risks, from war in the Middle East to resource nationalists in Latin America. Lately, they face another confounding...
Exclusive: As Fed looms, Morgan Stanley sets sale of U.S. oil terminal business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley has launched a formal effort to sell its controlling stake in U.S. oil terminal and transport business TransMontaigne, four sources said on Wednesday, following...
Insight: Wall Street uses ‘merchant’ workaround to cling to commodity assets
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Wall Street's commodity trading giants are using a 14-year-old law to hold on to their oil storage terminals and metals warehouses a little bit longer, even...
Analysis: JPMorgan faces ‘hard sell’ in crowded market for commodity traders
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For third time in five years, one of the world's biggest commodity trading desks is for sale. JPMorgan Chase & Co. said on Friday it would...
Under siege, JPMorgan to quit physical commodities
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co is exiting physical commodities trading, the bank said in a surprise statement on Friday, as Wall Street's role in the trading of...
Analysis: At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoria
HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the past three years, the boom in the U.S. shale oil industry has outstripped all expectations. Production surged far faster than any forecasts; drillers raced...
After Jackson, EPA faces decisions on U.S. fracking boom
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The past four years of U.S. environmental regulation was marked by a crackdown on emissions that angered coal miners and power companies. Over the next four,...
Analysis: Barclays set to fight FERC over bragging, not rigging
NEW YORK (Reuters) - British bank Barclays is set to fight a potentially record $470 million penalty from U.S. energy regulators by arguing its traders were guilty of braggadocio, not...