Here is one with implications that will not escape the silver/gold bulls among us, who have probably already seen this. Wall Street Journal says Comex has been classified as 'too big to fail' http://www.gata.org/node/11412 It is really a need-to-know item if one believes precious metal futures are extremely overleveraged, if CME (and perhaps the other two houses/firms mentioned) will be implicated in the MF Global fiasco/settlement, if one believes the slamming of silver prices at times in the past year were protective actions on behalf of CME, and/or if one recognizes the ability for China to raid the claimed tonnage behind the GLD ETF.