COMMODITY MARKETS.
REGULATION IN AMERICA. WASHINGTON, June 16. President Roosevelt to-day signed the so-called Commodity Exchange Act, designed to extend Government regulation to commodity markets, particularly grains, as now enforced on security exchanges. A commission will be appointed to adminster the Act, which provides for the fixing of trading limitations to curb excessive speculation, while various sorts of fictitious transactions .commonly employed to manipulate market prices are prohibited. All brokers and commission merchants dealing in commodity futures must register with the commission and supply periodic reports of their activities.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 18 June 1936, Page 7
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89COMMODITY MARKETS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 18 June 1936, Page 7
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