Mississippi Business Journal » futures http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Man guilty of unauthorized futures trading; faces $1M fine http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/12/man-guilty-of-fradulent-futures-trading-faces-1m-fine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-guilty-of-fradulent-futures-trading-faces-1m-fine http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/12/man-guilty-of-fradulent-futures-trading-faces-1m-fine/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:15:18 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=66507 OLIVE BRANCH — A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to making unauthorized wheat futures trades through the Chicago Board of Trade causing MF Global Inc. to lose $141 million. Federal officials in Chicago said 44-year-old Evan Brent Dooley of Olive Branch entered the plea to commodities trading violations. Authorities say he made large, unauthorized overnight [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/12/man-guilty-of-fradulent-futures-trading-faces-1m-fine/feed/ 0 Cotton prices take tumble http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/01/20/cotton-prices-take-tumble/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cotton-prices-take-tumble http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/01/20/cotton-prices-take-tumble/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:42:10 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=17768 NEW YORK — Cotton futures No. 2 closed $1.75 to $2.30 a bale lower Tuesday. The average price for strict low middling 1 & 1-16 inch spot cotton declined 32 points to 65.67 cents a pound Tuesday for the seven markets, according to the Market News Branch, Memphis USDA.

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