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Agricultural Trade Options : Lifting the Ban.

Discusses legislative proposals to repeal the ban on options contracts based on most agricultural commodities, reviews history of ban and rationale for repealing it, and profiles a new CFTC pilot program allowing limited agricultural options trading.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1998.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:
Farm produce.
Commodity exchanges.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Discusses legislative proposals to repeal the ban on options contracts based on most agricultural commodities, reviews history of ban and rationale for repealing it, and profiles a new CFTC pilot program allowing limited agricultural options trading.
Item Description:Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
CRS Report.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource.