As oil plunges from its highs is it safe to buy "crude casualties" such as airlines, autos and retailers?   Read More

Washington has been talking tough on oil prices on several fronts, calling for new trading regulations on speculators and reopening offshore oil drilling. But it's successful jawboning two of our major allies that seems to have had the biggest impact on prices this week.   Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Ford and Staples popped while iRobot and Apache dropped.   Read More

Farewell April. you weren't as cruel to the stock market as you could have been.    Read More

In Wednesday’s Web Extra, Guy Adami reveals why the Nymex guys are in an uproar over a potential merger. Also get Tim Seymour's international homebuilder play.   Read More

It's the shorts' victim du jour. Plus, why Foster Wheeler's a buy.   Read More

Traders I talked to on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange today were rather somber: not because oil futures saw the biggest dollar drop in 17 years but because those who own NYMEX shares watched the stock tank about 10 percent today.    Read More

There are two events occurring today: 1) The finanical services industry is systematically unwinding. Firms that are involved in financial execution are getting hammered midday: Interactive Brokers down 25 percent, ETrade down 12 percent, TradeStation down 12 percent.    Read More

Time is running out for Nymex's exclusive 30-day negotiating period with CME. If they fail to reach agreement, are slumping exchange stocks as good as dead?    Read More

Stocks of the NYMEX and other futures exchanges have rebounded from yesterday's steep slide after the Department of Justice's bombshell letter questioning the competitiveness of the exchanges "clearing" functions. The department is calling for an end to futures exchanges owning or controlling the business of "clearing," in which a third party takes the other side and guarantees the trade.    Read More