Some Banks Haven't Given Up On Trading Commodities. And That's a Good Thing.

JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Bank America are staring at the exit signs for some or all of their energy trading business. But now as the dust settles around a new reality, we are all left wondering how banks, a bedrock layer of the global energy markets for three decades, will soldier on. Or, if they will simply collapse under the weight of continued regulatory and political burden.