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NEWS ABOUT: Gary Gensler

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 Feds Consider Limits on 
 Oil, Energy Speculation 

Commodity Commission to hold hearings on 'purely financial' energy futures trading

Jul 7, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Federal regulators may impose new limits on the amount of energy-futures contracts that speculators can buy, the New York Times reports, an attempt to curb severe price fluctuations in commodities like oil and natural gas. Oil prices swung from $145 per barrel last summer to $33 in December, movement some... More »

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