Benzinga Podcast

When Benzinga's own Kyle Bazzy had the chance to speak with Mark Abssy, the Index & ETF Manager for the International Securities Exchange, he knew he was in for a treat. As the first all-electronic options exchange, the ISE transformed options trading into an electronic stratosphere. “It's...

I spoke with Peter Zeihan, Vice President of Analysis at the global intelligence company STRATFOR, regarding Germany's ban of nuclear power plants which was instituted last week. Besides presenting a major opportunity for several of the world's largest energy suppliers (the specifics of which are...

I spoke with Ben Lichtenstein, President of TradersAudio.com, to get an outlook on this week's market performance straight from the S&P Futures Pit of the CBOT. Lichtenstein expects cautious, highly technical behavior: “We're going to be on a holding pattern, trying to digest some of the...

I had a chance to catch up with Dan Dicker on Benzinga Radio earlier this week. Dan, a veteran oil trader, just wrote a great new book on structural issues in the oil markets called Oil's Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Oil to Secure Our Economy. Back on May 11, 17 U.S. senators signed...

Germany's illogical but politically popular ban of nuclear power within its borders has opened up a considerable gap in the energy supply, as nuclear power has recently provided about a third of the country's power. I spoke with Andreas Franke, associate editor of the Platts European Power Daily,...

I spoke with Control Risks Europe analyst David Lea yesterday on Benzinga Radio regarding the wave of protests sweeping across the eurozone. As Europe's leaders orchestrate privatization plans and bailouts in Greece, lay out visions for greater fiscal union, and generally explore any and every...

Marshall Auerback, portfolio strategist at Madison Street Partners and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, discusses Eurozone exit strategies with Benzinga Radio's Matthew Boesler. Commentary on the Eurozone debt crisis has revolved around the possibility of Greece returning to a native...

Dennis Gartman, author of the Gartman Letter, discusses investment strategy in the wake of the coming Greek default. And for Gartman, the default certainly is inevitable: “When you get debt-to-GDP ratio above 150%, history says the country fails - and this will be a failure eventually.” How should...

Ben Bennett, credit strategist at the UK financial services firm Legal & General, shares his outlook on the Greek debt crisis. Bennett: “We did a lot of analysis trying to work out if there was a middle ground where Greece could haircut its debt in order to make it somewhat sustainable going...

Benzinga caught up with David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors, to discuss the latest in the Greek bailout saga. In Athens, tens of thousands of Greeks are taking to the streets in order to voice their displeasure over the austerity measures put in place by the...

Benzinga recently caught up with Chris Nagy, a TD Ameritrade managing director overseeing routing strategy at the firm, to discuss flash crashes, splash crashes, and what needs to be done to prevent these from happening in the future. "More needs to be done," Mr. Nagy said with regard to...

Rising action in the Middle East is increasing pressure on regional powers to resolve long-standing issues. Scott Lasensky, senior researcher at the United States Institute of Peace, discusses the Arab Spring and Obama's May 19 address on Middle Eastern policy. Obama's speech outlined a balanced U...

“It's not clear that anyone understands the impact on the market that [ETFs] could have as a whole given the scale and speed at which the ETF sector has grown,” says Gillian Tett, US managing editor of the Financial Times. Tett draws parallels between the collateralized debt obligations market,...

Fifty years from now, the world may look back on Trove as the media service that changed the way the world receives its news. Created as a project by the company's WaPo Labs, Trove.com is a personalized news site that scours 10,000 relevant news feeds from across the Internet for stories that...

Benzinga recently caught up with Eric Sprott, CEO of Sprott Asset Management. Sprott is a long-time proponent of owning both gold and silver. He spoke with us about his outlook for the metals and his thoughts on the gold-to-silver price ratio. We also discussed how he's handling the current...