Hollywood clashed with Wall Street on Wednesday at a government hearing about the potential sale of futures contracts linked to box office receipts of major motion pictures.

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  1. Jason Ruspini said:

    So, outside of Chilton, they are saying that event contracts, broadly speaking, are within CFTC jurisdiction.

    With these particular contracts, Market Oversight seems to have a “can do” attitude, but there is still a good amount of skepticism on manipulability and whether or not such contracts would conform to the CEA.

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