26.02.2016 - Lawmakers Urge Commodities Agency to Keep Plan to Limit Futures Contracts
Lawmakers heaped criticism on an advisory committee report to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission recommending that the agency scrap its proposed rule on position limits in derivatives trading. The report and a dissenting opinion were presented at a meeting of the commission on Thursday. The report, which was approved 8 to 1 by the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee, says that federally mandated position limits are not necessary and that the C.F.T.C. should not enact the rule it has been working on. It adds that if the agency goes ahead with the rule, it needs substantial changes...............................................Full Article: Source
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