John Lothian

CME equity chief says new schedule, small-cap rebound are driving deeper use of BTIC and Russell suite. WILLIAMS BAY, WI (JLN) – June 26, 2026: CME Group’s Joe Hickey says FTSE Russell’s move to a semiannual U.S. index reconstitution effectively doubles the need for futures hedging around the reshuffles and is reinforcing demand across CME’s Russell complex.

ELMHURST, IL (JLN) ― JUNE 17, 2026: The United States Congress did not create the Commodity Futures Trading Commission so that one man could sit atop a tower of unchecked power and remake derivatives, prediction markets, and crypto in his own image. It created a five‑member commission, balanced and bipartisan by design, to referee some of the most systemically important and politically sensitive markets in the world. Today, that design has been effectively scrapped.

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The CFTC is offering buyouts and early resignation packages to roughly 50 long-time employees (47 from a source of mine) even as it scraps plans for a new, smaller headquarters and instead extends its current lease for five years to accommodate as many as 100 additional staff, Lydia Beyoud and Nicola M White of Bloomberg reported.