Amaranth to pay $7.5 million to settle CFTC, FERC gas manipulation cases

摘要

Amaranth Advisors has agreed to pay $7.5 million to the US government to settle charges by energy regulators that the hedge fund manipulated natural gas futures prices in 2006.rnTwo years after filing separate charges against Amaranth, FERC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday announced they had reached a joint settlement meant to end regulatory and court cases against the hedge fund and its subsidiaries.