{"id":9230,"date":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"settlement-reached-in-natural-gas-trading-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/settlement-reached-in-natural-gas-trading-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Settlement reached in natural gas trading case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globe and Mail &#8211; Amaranth Advisors LLC and two of its former traders have reached a settlement with U.S. regulatory staff over the alleged manipulation of natural gas futures prices.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which was submitted to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, could end the long case against hedge fund traders Brian Hunter and Matthew Donohue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/Summary --><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Mr. Hunter, a Calgarian who made more than $100-million trading natural gas for Amaranth before the hedge fund collapsed, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The commission accused the traders last year of manipulating prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and proposed a $291-million (U.S.) fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20081126.RAMARANTH26\/TPStory\/Business\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globe and Mail &#8211; Amaranth Advisors LLC and two of its former traders have reached a settlement with U.S. regulatory staff over the alleged manipulation of natural gas futures prices. The deal, which was submitted to the U.S. Federal Energy [&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":[440,2796,707,309,3911,2116,541,545,3912,3913,542,1372],"class_list":["post-9230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-crude-prices","tag-dealer-operations","tag-december-31","tag-farmland","tag-financial-instruments","tag-french-bank","tag-kelton-research","tag-nymex","tag-offshore-oil-rigs","tag-peak-ridge","tag-rival-bidders","tag-rjr-nabisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230","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=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}