Dooley (45) was a commodities trader for MF Global in February 2008 when he placed a wrong-way trade on wheat.
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Haugerud, 47, started her career in commodities as a trader at Cargill and has experienced depressed commodity prices for most of her adult life.
The former official also said he was confident a flap over Clinton's pardon of commodities trader Marc Rich would not be a major hurdle for Holder with a Democratic Congress.
The latter, a commodities trader, now feared that the IRS would levy his trading account, effectively putting him out of business.
"People here are reluctant to come out because, naturally, they worry about what's going to happen, " Faisal Kapadia, a commodities trader in Karachi, told CNN on Monday.
Joe Robertson, a commodities trader in his 60s heading to Mass in New York, said he was taken aback by the swiftness of the vote for the 76-year-old prelate, whose name he said he couldn't pronounce.
Robert Ehrlich, 50, a former commodities trader and the founder of Robert's American Gourmet, peddles edible flim-flam.
The CFTC said Wednesday that the New York firm, a securities broker, commodities trader and provider of risk-management services, failed to put in place adequate risk policies and controls in 2008 and early 2009, a period that included the depths of the financial crisis.
The planned merger of commodities trader Glencore and mining group Xstrata has moved a step closer after Xstrata's second-largest shareholder said it would back the deal.
David Sobotka, president of the operation, is a 45-year-old commodities trader who learned his craft at Lehman Brothers in New York instead of in the oil patch.
Earlier, a trader said, gold and other commodities found minute support from the HSBC preliminary Purchasing Managers Index for October.
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That is not to say that everyone should be a day trader or start buying and selling commodities, of course, but rather an effort to demystify the sometimes overly-complicated world of investing.
The U.S. trader and Edward Meir, commodities consultant with INTL FCStone, cited a return by workers at Amplats.
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Commodities trader Glencore and mining outfit Xstrata are engaged in merger talks, with a formal deal expected to be hammered out as early as next week.
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