{"id":15447,"date":"2010-04-30T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2010-04-30T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:10:06","slug":"hedge-fund-settles-metals-market-manipulation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2010\/hedge-fund-settles-metals-market-manipulation-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Settles Metals-Market Manipulation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Moore Capital Management, the veteran hedge-fund firm ensnared  earlier this year in a U.K. insider-trading probe, agreed to pay $25  million to settle a regulatory investigation over allegedly manipulative  commodity-futures trading two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said that, between  November 2007 and May 2008, Moore failed to supervise a portfolio  manager who improperly tried to &#8220;exert upward pressure&#8221; on futures  contract prices tied to platinum and palladium. Moore didn&#8217;t admit or  deny wrongdoing in agreeing to the penalty announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704302304575214751506003906.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Moore Capital Management, the veteran hedge-fund firm ensnared earlier this year in a U.K. insider-trading probe, agreed to pay $25 million to settle a regulatory investigation over allegedly manipulative commodity-futures trading two years ago. The U.S. Commodity Futures [&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-15447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447","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=15447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15448,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions\/15448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}