Glencore announces CFTC probe
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-04-26T19:59:00
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating whether multinational commodity trading and mining company Glencore and its subsidiaries might have violated certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and/or CFTC regulations.
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