Crying

Thursday Futures Price Spike has Some Traders Seeing Red

Some traders are crying foul with regards to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) electronic Globex trading system following last Thursday morning’s knee-jerk spike in front-month natural gas futures of nearly 75 cents. Some traders complained that their orders were not filled following the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) storage report release at 10:30 a.m. EDT, which sparked the run-up in prices. The trading exchange said Friday that no glitches were reported on the system.

March 23, 2009

Thursday Futures Price Spike has Some Traders Seeing Red

Some traders are crying foul with regards to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) electronic Globex trading system following Thursday morning’s knee-jerk spike in front-month natural gas futures of nearly 75 cents. Some traders complained that their orders were not filled following the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) storage report release at 10:30 a.m. EDT, which sparked the run-up in prices. The trading exchange said Friday that no glitches were reported on the system.

March 23, 2009

Blackouts Narrowly Averted, CA Still Crying for Help

“Hope” was the operative four-letter word in California last week if you had anything to do with the energy industry or government as Friday saw the previous day’s specter of rolling blackouts from razor-thin electricity reserves ease.

January 15, 2001