04.10.2012 - CME, ICE drop position limit plans after ruling against CFTC
Exchange operators CME Group and ICE Futures U.S. said on Wednesday they would stick with their existing position limits regimes after a court threw out the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) new rule to curb commodity market speculation. CME Group and ICE, a subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange Inc, had proposed revisions to their own position limit rules to bring them in line with the changes mandated by the CFTC. Those changes were due to come into effect on Oct. 12, but the rule was thrown out by the U.S. District Court of Columbia on Friday following a lengthy challenge by Wall Street banks...............................................Full Article: Source
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