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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

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