{"id":32471,"date":"2012-11-13T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=32471"},"modified":"2012-11-13T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:03:26","slug":"gas-prices-fsa-examines-whistleblowers-claims-of-libor-like-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2012\/gas-prices-fsa-examines-whistleblowers-claims-of-libor-like-manipulation.html","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices: FSA examines whistleblower&#8217;s claims of &#8216;Libor-like&#8217; manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, is investigating claims by a whistleblower that Britain&#8217;s \u00a3300bn wholesale gas market has been &#8220;regularly&#8221; manipulated by some of the big power companies, exploiting weaknesses that echo the recent Libor scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the energy regulator Ofgem has been warned by a company responsible for setting so-called benchmark prices, ICIS Heren, that it had seen evidence of suspect trading on 28 September, a key date as it marks the end of the gas financial year and can have an important influence on future prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/nov\/12\/libor-like-manipulation-gas-markets\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, is investigating claims by a whistleblower that Britain&#8217;s \u00a3300bn wholesale gas market has been &#8220;regularly&#8221; manipulated by some of the big power companies, exploiting weaknesses that echo the recent Libor scandal. [&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-32471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471","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=32471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32473,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471\/revisions\/32473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}