US delays vote on commodity trade

17 December 2010  The Financial Times

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US federal regulators unexpectedly postponed a long-awaited vote to introduce sweeping limits on commodity speculation amid internal discord about the timing of the rules.

The new rules from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would have capped the number of contracts that investors could hold in 28 raw materials including oil, gold, copper and corn.

 

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