WINDOW ON WALL STREET

摘要

CNBC reporter Kelly (Street Fighters) offers a glimpse into the world of commodities traders and those who attempt to regulate the often controversial $2 trillion commodities market. Kelly focuses mainly on energy (crude oil, heating oil, natural gas, etc.) but also touches on other commodities such as livestock, metals, and agricultural crops. She shines a light on the most mysterious part of the market-futures contracts and the derivatives based on them. Successful traders such as Pierre Andurant and Marc Rich are portrayed as cowboys running roughshod though a Wild West market that is not as carefully regulated as the stock market. Although she spends most time on the speculative traders, Kelly also depicts a few would-be reformers such as Gary Gensler, former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.