JP Morgan’s Market Manipulation

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JP Morgan was found to be guilty of manipulating commodities markets using a tactic known as “spoofing”.

The U.S. bank is fined $920M for the infraction.

The infraction involved fifteen traders over a span of eight years of manipulating treasury contracts.

By manipulating the price of gold and silver futures, they caused an overall loss of over $300M to participants in the market.