Sharon Brown-Hruska

• Brown-Hruska: Futures Prices Follow Physical Markets

  By Staff Writer  |  April 3, 2006

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--In a speech to the Natural Gas Roundtable at the University Club Tuesday [March 28], a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued that market manipulation through derivatives is more difficult, and successes more rare, than is commonly believed. Or, as Sharon Brown-Hruska phrased it, it's the physical...

• Brown-Hruska Replies to Buffett on Derivatives

  By Staff Writer  |  December 19, 2005

  NEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--A commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission acknowledged last week--and replied to--the concerns of the financier Warren Buffett and others that financial...

• Transatlantic Derivatives: CFTC and CEFR to Collaborate

  By Staff Writer  |  February 22, 2005

  PARIS (HedgeWorld.com)--The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Committee of European Securities Regulators held a two-day round table on cross-border derivatives issues, Feb. 10 and Feb. 11, at CESR headquarters in Paris. In a joint statement the two agencies said that the purpose of the round table was to...

• A Free Market Program: From the CFTC's Chair to the ABA's Ears

  By Staff Writer  |  February 17, 2005

  KEY WEST, Fla. (HedgeWorld.com)--The acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission gave the keynote address at a Feb. 4 meeting of the American Bar Association's committee on the regulation of futures. She outlined the principles that guide her discharge of her duties and the tasks that lie ahead, both...

• New CFTC Chair Skeptical about SEC Registration Rule

  By Staff Writer  |  August 2, 2004

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--President George W. Bush designated Commissioner Sharon Brown-Hruska as the new acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, effective July 24, 2004. The White House also said that the president plans to nominate Ms. Brown-Hruska to a second term as commissioner, to expire in April 2009. Last month,...

• Newsome Leaving CFTC, Looking Back on Changes Wrought

  By Staff Writer  |  July 27, 2004

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has resigned that post, effective July 23. Thereafter, one of the two remaining commissioners, Walt Lukken...

• New CFTC Commissioner Wants Debate Over Futures Cl

  By Staff Writer  |  September 24, 2002

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--A debate about the common clearing of products at the U.S. futures exchanges has picked up steam of late, and at least one member...