New trading curbs to clamp down on speculation in oil and other commodities are being examined by US regulators in a signal of a tougher approach to oversight of these markets, the FT reported. The CFTC, the US futures regulator, intends to hold hearings to determine whether federal speculative limits should be set on “all commodities of finite supply”, in particular oil, natural gas and other energy commodities.

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