Thursday, August 28, 2008

CFTC probes oil report!

CFTC inspector starts probe into oil report: paper Thu Aug 28, 1:55 AM ET

(Reuters) - The Inspector General for the U.S. commodity-futures regulator has officially begun an investigation into an inter-agency report on commodity markets, the Wall Street Journal said citing a person close to the matter.

Earlier in the month four U.S. senators had sent a letter to Inspector General Roy Lavik questioning the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's role in an inter-agency task force interim report that said "supply and demand factors" were responsible for the surge in fuel prices.

The interim task-force report, which came out just days ahead of a Senate vote on the bill, said skyrocketing energy prices were the result of supply-and-demand fundamentals and not speculation.

The senators, including senior members of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, allege that the CFTC knowingly included "seriously flawed" data and the timing was "suspicious."

No one at CFTC was immediately available for comment.

(Reporting by Sweta Singh in Bangalore; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080828/bs_nm/cftc_dc

Maybe that's why oil goes down when a hurricane heads to the gulf!

(With thanks for Bob for bringing this article to my attention!)

1 comment:

bob said...

For those that do not know the inspector general is an independent office within the CFTC.
They are the internal affairs for both the SEC and the CFTC.