tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323125037607548189.post7165271281546947580..comments2024-03-15T02:40:09.484-04:00Comments on Wall Street Manna: MBIA has 81 million shorts and not one expected this!Palmonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670456087642069778noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323125037607548189.post-40087338805020054092008-08-28T18:10:00.000-04:002008-08-28T18:10:00.000-04:00Wow Another great find!Wow Another great find!Palmonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17670456087642069778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323125037607548189.post-83228521348208163852008-08-28T10:18:00.000-04:002008-08-28T10:18:00.000-04:00oh my...CFTC inspector starts probe into oil repor...oh my...<BR/><BR/><BR/>CFTC inspector starts probe into oil report: paper Thu Aug 28, 1:55 AM ET<BR/> <BR/><BR/><BR/>(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. <BR/><BR/> <BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>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."<BR/><BR/>The Inspector General was taking the issue "very seriously" and was conducting interviews in a number of CFTC offices, the paper said citing a person close to the matter.<BR/><BR/>No one at CFTC was immediately available for comment.<BR/><BR/>(Reporting by Sweta Singh in Bangalore; Editing by Greg Mahlich)<BR/><BR/>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080828/bs_nm/cftc_dc_1bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08826575972150819163noreply@blogger.com