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Futures Past


10 years ago
US traders fight transaction tax
The Clinton administration budget proposed a ten cents per contract user fee on futures trading in the US. Exchanges and industry organisations reacted with howls of protest against the plan, which had been posed and defeated several times before, arguing the fee would be counterproductive.

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