{"id":16026,"date":"2010-06-03T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2010-06-03T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T10:00:25","slug":"founder-says-lionsgate%e2%80%99s-burns-has-conflict-of-interest-in-hollywood-stock-exchangecantor-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/founder-says-lionsgate%e2%80%99s-burns-has-conflict-of-interest-in-hollywood-stock-exchangecantor-exchange.html","title":{"rendered":"Founder says Lionsgate\u2019s Burns has conflict of interest in Hollywood Stock Exchange\/Cantor Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge Tracker &#8211; The chance to turn your virtual cash into the real thing on the  Hollywood Stock Exchange is set to begin at the end of June. The futures  market regulator, the CFTC, is moving forward on approving trading  futures contracts on box office results. Now Hollywood and Wall Street  are anxiously waiting to see if Congress will bless it.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the exchanges\u2019 founders says there are important conflicts of  interest that haven\u2019t been investigated. Max Keiser, journalist for <em>Russia  Today TV<\/em>, showed his viewers video tape of his former partner in  the HSX\/Cantor Exchange, Michael Burns, Vice Chairman of film studio  Lionsgate  (NYSE: LGF), bragging about trading on inside information on  HSX, a virtual exchange they both created in the mid 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgetracker.com\/article\/Founder-says-Lionsgates-Burns-has-conflict-of-interest-in-Hollywood-Stock-Exchange-Cantor-Exchange\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge Tracker &#8211; The chance to turn your virtual cash into the real thing on the Hollywood Stock Exchange is set to begin at the end of June. The futures market regulator, the CFTC, is moving forward on approving trading [&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-16026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026","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=16026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16027,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions\/16027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}