CFTC Accuses Oil Traders Of Alleged Manipulation

摘要

In a move that may buttress congres-nsional Democrats’ claims that oil specula-ntors are responsible for the big run-up in noil and gasoline prices this year, the Com-nmodity Futures Trading Commission al-nleged in a federal lawsuit Tuesday that two noil futures traders and their employers ran na cross-market trading scheme in 2008 to nmanipulate oil futures prices, netting more nthan $50 million from the scheme.