It could take at least a year to begin determining whether new regulation will remove or contain derivatives risk.

Regulators approved the trading of futures and option contracts tied to the opening weekend box-office revenue of the crime thriller ?Takers.?

Regulators reviewing the stock market free fall last Thursday are examining heavy selling in the market for stock-index futures by a single trader, beginning 10 minutes before stocks began to plummet.

Dow Jones industrial average plunges 1,000 points for brief 16 minutes, terrifying Wall Street before making partial recovery; drop leaves experts and ordinary investors alike struggling to understand what happened and fearful of where markets might go; at least part of sell-off appears to be linked to trader error, possibly incorrect order routed through one of nation's exchanges; but speed and scale of plunge, largest intraday decline on record, fuels fears that financial troubles gripping Eu...

Film industry players and lawmakers have aligned in an 11th-hour push to block financial instruments that would allow traders to swap contracts tied to box-office results.

Gary Gensler, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is the leading contender to oversee the instruments that played a key role in the financial crisis.

Gary G Gensler, after decades of fighting regulation reform at both Goldman Sachs and then at Treasury Department, has become, as head of Commodity Futures Trading Commission, one of nation's strongest and potentially most influential advocates of reform, pushing to imposing stringent new financial regulations; proposals set forth would significantly change largely unregulated market using derivatives; Gensler says that his views have remained constant, it is just his standing, appointments and...