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Recent press reports of Congressional and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigations of possible price manipulations involving financial and energy assets have once again raised the question of what types of behavior constitute unlawful manipulation under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), which governs exchange and over-the-counter trading in a wide range of financial and commodities assets and values and can reach activities beyond U.S. borders.
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Relative value volatility trades where investors go long the vol spread between two indices via variance spreads have been realizing significant profits over the last year.
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The big moves were in Asia last week with Barrie Feldman, former head of fixed income trading at BNP Paribas, joining Nomura in Tokyo as co-head of yen rates trading to work alongside Naoya Murata. -
Assenagon has been trading swaptions on the CDX investment grade North America index, expecting it to underperform Europe in the coming weeks even if the U.S. resolves the debt ceiling issue and avoids default.
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Hedge funds are increasingly purchasing variance swaps on the Eurostoxx 50 against other indices on the back of volatility selling pressure in the Dec-14 and Dec-15 maturities.
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission is leading the international charge to tackle cross-border extraterritoriality of global regulatory reforms stemming from the Pittsburgh G20 commitments, setting up a cross-border task force designed to bring industry and regulators together.
