(BestGrowthStock) – The top U.S. futures market regulator will hold a hearing on Thursday to consider whether position limits are needed for metals futures such as gold, silver and copper.
The day-long hearing will feature more than 15 speakers, including traders, exchanges and individual investors.
The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has pushed to crack down on concentration in markets, beginning with a proposal made in January to limit speculation in energy markets, now out for public comment.
Here is a list of who will testify at Thursday’s hearing on the metals markets:
Panel One:
Dan Berkovitz, General Counsel, CFTC
Steve Sherrod, Division of Market Oversight, CFTC
Panel Two:
Jeff Burghardt, Luvata
Jeremy Charles, HSBC Bank USA, NA
Tom LaSala, CME Group
Diarmuid O’Hegarty, London Metals Exchange
Mark Epstein, Individual Trader
Panel Three:
Tom Callahan, NYSE Euronext
Henry G. Jarecki, Gresham Investment Management
Bill Murphy, Gold Antitrust Action Committee
Kevin Norrish, Barclays Capital
John Lothian, John Lothian & Co.
Panel Four:
Richard Strait, Triland USA, Division of Mitsubishi Corp
Simon Grenfell, Deutsche Bank
Mike Masters, Masters Capital
Harvey Organ, Individual Investor
Jeffrey Christian, CPM Group
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(Reporting by Christopher Doering)
Factbox: Speakers at the CFTC metals hearing March 25
