Appeals court stays probe into possible CFTC breach of manipulation settlement

摘要

Members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are likelybreathing easier after a federal appeals court stayed unusual lowercourt proceedings considering sanctions against the regulators for analleged breach of the confidentiality provisions in a marketmanipulation case settlement.The underlying case arises from a CFTC complaint against KraftFoods Group and Mondelez Global that has been closely watched byenergy sector interests because of its potential to help defineparameters of the CFTC’s manipulation authorities.