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What's Really Behind Rising Margin Requirements for Commodity Futures

CME Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CME ), which provides an electronic exchange for commodity futures, raised margin requirements for trading silver futures contracts on May 4 - resulting in a steep drop in silver prices . A similar thing happened last week in the oil futures market when the CME Group last Monday raised margin requirements on oil contracts by 25%. While the impact of that decision was not immediately felt, it seemed to have a delayed effect on the futures market. By Wednesday, there was so much selling that the exchanges had to close trading in oil and gasoline to chill everyone out for a while.
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