Nearly five years after its initial notice of proposed rulemaking for regulations implementing speculative position limits, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) unanimously voted to repropose regulations.
The regulations would affect speculative positions in 25 core physical commodity futures contracts and their “economically equivalent” futures, options and swaps (referenced contracts). The changes come after a 2011 final rule was vacated by federal courts, restarting the rulemaking process. Read on to learn more about the latest iteration of CFTC’s proposal.