28.06.2010 - U.N. warns about commodities-trading rules
From WSJ: As U.S. lawmakers were fine-tuning their financial-regulatory overhaul, the United Nations cautioned against onerous restrictions on speculative investors in commodities markets. Though the surge in food prices globally two years ago "might have been amplified by speculators in organized futures markets," limiting or banning speculative trading—undertaken with the goal of profiting from successful anticipation of price moves—"might do more harm than good," the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization said in a policy brief last week..............................................Full Article: Source
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