{"id":2127,"date":"2009-07-08T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2009-07-08T10:13:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:13:05","slug":"curbs-on-speculative-oil-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/08\/curbs-on-speculative-oil-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Curbs on speculative oil trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shift from two decades of hands-off market regulation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering <a title=\"new restrictions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/08\/business\/08cftc.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">new restrictions<\/a> on purely financial investors speculating on oil, natural gas and other energy products.\u00a0 Energy risk-management expert <a title=\"Mark T. Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/WilliamsMark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark T. Williams<\/a>, who teaches finance in the School of Management, can discuss how this might affect the energy markets.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Mark T. Williams, 617-358-2789, <a href=\"mailto:williams@bu.edu\">williams@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shift from two decades of hands-off market regulation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering new restrictions on purely financial investors speculating on oil, natural gas and other energy products.\u00a0 Energy risk-management expert Mark T. Williams, who teaches finance in the School of Management, can discuss how this might affect the energy markets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1231,1429,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}