24.10.2013 - U.S. swaps regulator to vote on commodity limits rule
The U.S. derivatives regulator will meet next month to adopt a rule that will curtail Wall Street's ability to speculate with commodities, a measure investment banks are fighting in court. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is revising the rule on so-called position limits, even as its lawyers are preparing to defend an earlier version knocked down by a U.S. court last year. But Mark Wetjen, one of the CFTC's four commissioners, said this week that the dual strategy of pursuing the appeal and a new rule at the same time was not necessarily the best, and that the agency could drop the appeal...............................................Full Article: Source
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