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Thursday, 02/23/2012 6:49:30 PM

Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:49:30 PM

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"Historically, financial speculators accounted for about 30 percent of oil trading in commodity markets, while producers and end users made up about 70 percent. Today it’s almost the reverse.

A McClatchy review of the latest Commitment of Traders report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates oil trading, shows that producers and merchants made up just 36 percent of all contracts traded in the week ending Feb. 14 while speculators who will never take delivery of the oil made up 64 percent.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/22/430184/blame-oil-speculators-for-gas-prices/
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