{"id":14042,"date":"2010-02-10T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14042"},"modified":"2010-02-10T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:47:43","slug":"hedge-fund-energy-trades-under-growing-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2010\/hedge-fund-energy-trades-under-growing-scrutiny.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Energy Trades Under Growing Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Hedge funds and other speculators trade billions of dollars worth of oil futures without intending to ever take delivery of a single drop of fuel. Even so, their impact can be profound on oil prices, and thus the major stocks like Exxon Mobile, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell.<\/p>\n<p>This fact has not gone unnoticed in Washington. When Gary Gensler, the former Goldman Sachs ( GS &#8211; news &#8211; people ) banker and Treasury Department official, was nominated last year to chair the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission, he contradicted the previous claims of the energy futures&#8217; chief regulator and disputed the notion that speculators have no impact on energy trading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/02\/09\/energy-futures-personal-finance-hedge-funds.html?boxes=financechannelforbes\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Hedge funds and other speculators trade billions of dollars worth of oil futures without intending to ever take delivery of a single drop of fuel. Even so, their impact can be profound on oil prices, and thus the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14044,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions\/14044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}