CFTC Announces Participants For Public Meeting To Examine Futures And Options Trading In The Metals Markets

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the participants for its public meeting to examine the trading of futures and options in the precious and base metals markets. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 25, 2010, CFTC Hearing Room, 1155 21^st Street, NW, Washington, DC.

Reminder: Advanced Registration Requested. The Commission is requesting all individuals interested in attending the metals meeting to register in advance. Please transmit full name and organization represented to metalsmeetingregistration@cftc.gov.


Panel One:		Dan Berkovitz, General Counsel, CFTC Steve Sherrod, Division of Market Oversight, CFTC
Panel Two:		Jeff Burghardt, Luvata Jeremy Charles, HSBC Bank USA, NA Tom LaSala, CME Group Diarmuid O’Hegarty, London Metal Exchange Mark Epstein, Individual Trader
Panel Three:		Tom Callahan, NYSE Euronext Dr. Henry G. Jarecki, Gresham Investment Management Bill Murphy, Gold Antitrust Action Committee Kevin Norrish, Barclays Capital John Lothian, John Lothian & Co.
Panel Four:		Richard Strait, Triland USA, a Division of Mitsubishi Corporation Mike Masters, Masters Capital Harvey Organ, Individual Investor Jeffrey Christian, CPM Group
The meeting will be open to the public and will be webcast via the internet. In addition, audio of the meeting will be available via a listen-only conference call.
Viewing/Listening Information:
1.	Watch a live broadcast of the meeting via webcast on www.cftc.gov.
2.	Call in to a toll-free telephone line to connect to a live audio feed.
Call-in participants should be prepared to provide their first name, last name and affiliation. Conference call information is listed below:
Domestic/Canada Toll-Free: (888) 691-4252 International Toll: (404) 537-3379 Conference ID: 62232495 Call leader name: CFTC