The inspector general of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission has begun his investigation into claims made by four US senators that an interagency report on oil trading was manipulated. The senators have imposed a deadline of September 19 for the investigation to conclude.
The report was published on July 22 by the Interagency Task Force on Commodity Markets, comprising representatives of the Departments of Agriculture, Energy and the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Federal...