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DOSSIER / ACTORREGULATOR · US COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

CFTC

Status Tracked

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission; it is investigating oil futures trades placed shortly before Trump's 23 March and 7 April Iran policy shifts, and in August 2026 fined a White House teleprompter operator for betting on speech contents he had access to before delivery.

Last on record
2026-09
Named in
3 articles
Across
1 case

Named in 3 articles across 1 case 10 connections: companies 6, parties and organisations 1, people 3

Key figure on file
More than US$2.6 billion
The combined value of at least four oil-futures trades the Justice Department and the CFTC are examining, each betting prices would fall shortly befo… ABC News and NBC News, May 2026
3
Articles naming it
1
Cases it recurs across
10
Linked in the graph
2
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The War TradeMore than US$2.6 billionThe combined value of at least four oil-futures trades the Justice Department and the CFTC are examining, each betting prices would fall shortly be…3 articles →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. More than US$2.6 billionThe combined value of at least four oil-futures trades the Justice Department and the CFTC are examining, each betting prices would fall shortly before they did, on 23 March, 7 April, 17 April and 21 April 2026. The Justice Department investigation is led by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. No trader has been identified, and no finding of insider trading has been made.Source: ABC News and NBC News, May 2026Sixteen minutes →
  2. US$172,000The CFTC found he “had access to presidential speeches prior to delivery and misappropriated that information, in breach of his duty of trust and confidence”. Kalshi’s own surveillance froze his account, which held more than US$90,000, and referred him to the regulator. The White House issued guidance to staff in March warning against betting with nonpublic information.Source: CBS News / AP, 28 August 2026Sixteen minutes →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 3 articles that name CFTC, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about CFTC.

Evidence strength · 69 sources across 3 articles
  • Primary 14
  • Official 3
  • Masthead 32
  • Trade 3
  • Aggregator 8
  • 9 not yet graded
Primary
the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official
the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead
a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade
specialist or trade press
Aggregator
republishes others’ work
How sources are graded

3 of 3 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

CFTCDonald Trump: named together in 3 articlesDonald Trump3Polymarket: named together in 2 articlesPolymarket2Santos: named together in 2 articlesSantos2Anthony Albanese: named together in 1 articleAnthony Albanese1Google: named together in 1 articleGoogle1Hancock Prospecting: named together in 1 articleHancock Prospecting1Marrickville Golf Club: named together in 1 articleMarrickville Golf Club1Steve Witkoff: named together in 1 articleSteve Witkoff1Trump Media: named together in 1 articleTrump Media1World Liberty Financial: named together in 1 articleWorld Liberty Financial1
The 10 names most often in the same articles as CFTC. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

How this page is assembled. The name, status and role are the desk's entity record. The article list, case counts, connections and the figures under On the record are read by script from the published articles that name CFTC: the desk's key figures where it declared them, otherwise figures harvested from those articles. A connection is a name that appears in the same articles; it is not a finding about the relationship. Under How we know, the sources are those articles' references, counted once each and tiered only where the desk declared a tier; a grade beside an article is its weakest headline finding, shown only where every headline finding is graded. The page is rebuilt when an article is published or changed.

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