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Limits on Speculative Trading Needed to Protect Energy Markets, U.S. Regulator Says [1]

The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Wednesday that the agency wanted to impose new restrictions on so-called speculative traders, not to reduce price volatility but to prevent the energy markets from being dominated by a few huge investment funds.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2009
New York Times (New York) [2]
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Trade [3], Energy [4], Natural Gas [5], Power Industry [6], United States Of America (US) [7]
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