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Benchmark Regulation, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher Jan 2017

Benchmark Regulation, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher

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Benchmarks are metrics that are deeply embedded in the financial markets. They are essential to the efficient functioning of the markets and are used in a wide variety of ways-from pricing oil to setting interest rates for consumer lending to valuing complex financial instruments. In recent years, benchmarks have also been at the epicenter of numerous, multi-year market manipulation scandals. Oil traders, for example, deliberately execute trades to drive benchmarks lower artificially, allowing the traders to capitalize on the manipulated benchmarks. This ensures that later trades relying on the benchmarks will be more profitable than they otherwise would have been. …


The Requirement Of Exactness In The Justification Of Price And Service Differentials Under The Robinson-Patman Act, Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1951

The Requirement Of Exactness In The Justification Of Price And Service Differentials Under The Robinson-Patman Act, Ralph F. Fuchs

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