Which of the Following Was NOT a Feature in the Three

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a feature in the three manipulation stories (Great Western,Hunt brothers,Salomon) involving forwards or futures markets?

• A) There were "shorts" generated in a futures or forward market.
• B) Shorts were "cornered" because the manipulators took significant control of the deliverable supply.
• C) Deliverable supply could not be increased without incurring significant additional costs.
• D) Shorts were forced to pay high prices when they tried to buy the underlying commodity from the manipulator.
• E) The regulators broke the squeeze by ordering producers to increase their supply.

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