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Regulators accused McVean Trading & Investments and senior executives of using trading agreements with feedlots to build cattle futures positions that circumvented exchange limits. The bets reportedly reached a fifth of open trades in a market worth about $19 billion.
The alleged scheme involved large positions in cattle futures, but it is an enforcement matter with no direct effect on cattle supply, demand, or feed use.
wsj.comJacob Bunge, Benjamin ParkinJun 21, 2017After 102 past neutral policy events, Live Cattle moved a median +0.6% over 5 sessions (63% higher; middle half -0.7% to +1.2%), and +1.3% over 20.
After 28 past neutral policy events, Feeder Cattle moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (61% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.8%), and +0.8% 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.
