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The CFTC says Kraft and Mondelez paid $16 million after building a strategy to buy and take delivery of more than 3,000 wheat futures contracts, worth about $90 million, to create a false signal of demand. The settlement addresses market manipulation rather than supply.
The penalty is a regulatory matter with little direct effect on wheat supply or demand, so price impact should be minimal.
reuters.comAug 15, 2019After 137 past neutral policy events, Wheat (SRW) moved a median -0.4% over 5 sessions (43% higher; middle half -1.9% to +1.2%), and +0.3% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
