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[FT] New Commodity Index To Exclude U.S. Futures
By IndexUniverse Staff | September 25, 2009 5:53 am

Standard & Poor's will consider creating a commodity futures index that excludes commodities listed in the United States, according to a new report in the Financial Times. Michael McGlone, head of the S&P GSCI, says the firm has been flooded with requests from clients concerned about the impact of the expected regulatory crackdown on commodity investors by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The CFTC is widely expected to enact new rules this fall that would severely limit the size of positions that investors can take in the commodity futures market.

Many have predicted that such a crackdown would only serve to move commodity investors overseas, and the announcement by S&P is the latest sign that such a migration may in fact take place.

The S&P GSCI is the world's most popular commodity index. Approximately $60 billion is currently benchmarked against the index.

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