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BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesINVESTIGATIONSRaiders in The Pits
Ever since January, when an FBI probe of shady trading
practices rocked Chicago's commodities pits, members of New York
City's markets have wondered when the spotlight would be turned on
them. Last week the waiting was over. On Thursday morning U.S.
postal inspectors and officials of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, the federal agency that regulates the pits, raided four
of New York's five commodities exchanges. The Feds combed through
records and served subpoenas on at least a dozen individuals in a
search for evidence of suspected criminal and civil violations by
an estimated 50 traders.
While the New York and Chicago probes are being handled by two
different collaborations of Government agencies, the groups are
looking for many of the same kinds of illicit trading techniques.
One tactic believed to be under investigation is "front running,"
in which traders assure profits by executing trades for their own
accounts before they carry out their customers' orders.