Commodities: CFTC urges “deepening” of factors behind recent price swings

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will conduct a series of "in-depth" studies to determine whether prices in commodity markets that have recently been stressed-such as natural gas, crude oil, metals and wheat-are driven by market fundamentals. Since the lows of 2020, food prices have risen 84 percent, fertilizer prices have risen an astonishing 220 […]