{"id":11138,"date":"2009-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"rein-in-energy-speculation-hedge-fund-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/rein-in-energy-speculation-hedge-fund-manager.html","title":{"rendered":"Rein In Energy Speculation: Hedge Fund Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; The Commodities Futures Trading Commission will <strong>seriously consider imposing strict position limits<\/strong> on traders placing bets on energy contracts, and that&#8217;s just fine with hedge fund manager Mike Masters.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Masters Capital Management blew the whistle on oil speculators last year when he <strong>testified before Congress<\/strong> regarding the rapid run-up in oil prices as it reached its record high of $145 a barrel. He is scheduled to testify at the CFTC hearings Aug. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">Masters, whose long\/short equity fund manages approximately $1.06 billion according to data provider IPREO, believes stringent limits on commodities trading would work. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/32203267?FORM=ZZNR5\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; The Commodities Futures Trading Commission will seriously consider imposing strict position limits on traders placing bets on energy contracts, and that&#8217;s just fine with hedge fund manager Mike Masters. The head of Masters Capital Management blew the whistle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1913,8275,2570,14714,6819,519,3327,14717,1806,1485,37,14721,4528,14715,4450,14716,14719,14718,14720,14722],"class_list":["post-11138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-capital-management","tag-cftc","tag-cnbc","tag-commodities-futures-trading","tag-commodities-trading","tag-commodities-futures-trading-commission","tag-data-provider","tag-energy-contracts","tag-equity-fund","tag-futures-trading-commission","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-ipreo","tag-long-short-equity","tag-mike-masters","tag-oil-prices","tag-oil-speculators","tag-position-limits","tag-rapid-run","tag-stringent-limits","tag-whistle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}