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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110313:16:45:00

alone. crude oil is up 11%. remember back to 2008 when people thought speculators might be having an impact when gas was over $4 a gallon and crude oil reached 147.20. we have a 64% increase, thomas. a 64% increase in the positions of speculators since that time. so our job at the cftc is to put in place a limit on how much the speculators control the market. we were supposed to do it in january. we need to do better. hopefully we'll put the positions in as soon as we can to ensure that these speculators aren't helping to push price up. i can't give you a quantity for how much they contribute, but i can tell you they are not the cruise control on gas and oil prices but i think they are tapping the gas pedal, thomas. >> is this prepping us for seeing, as we get into the summer, the high driving season? this is only march.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110313:16:43:00

escape the disaster. look at these damaged fighter jets at an air force base in one of the hardest hit regions. they were slammed into buildings covered with mud. japanese soldiers have been deployed in aid efforts there. the disaster in japan could have a huge impact on oil prices which could mean more pain at the pump for americans. we have been seeing the quake forcing the shut-down of refineries in nuclear power plants in japan. if they can't re-open soon analysts say this and the rebuilding efforts could lead to a surge in demand. japan uses more than 4 million barrels of oil a day, second only to the u.s. joining me now is bart shulton of the commodities futures trading commission. good to see you. we have a disaster in japan we are covering. the political upheaval in the arab world. how are these events affecting fuel prices as we watch them tick up in the u.s.? >> well, we have seen the energy prices going up for the last

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101001:17:59:00

we have answers to the crash of 2010, if you will, the flash crash. let me bring in allison. dow went down 300 points and people were freaking out. but we have an answer now. >> reporter: we're kind of laughing about it now but it was hardly a time to laugh back then. the fcc and the commodities futures trading commission came out with a 104-page report that found what many people already knew here at the new york stock exchange. what was the problem? the problem was that automated trading, that was the culprit of the flash crash. as we go into this report we're getting more details. it's really blaming one large investor for contributing to the eye-popping plunge where the dow plunged almost 1,000 points within a minute. all of the blame is really focused on the use of high frequency trading. the sale of a large block of futures contracts is what started this flash crash and triggered a series of other orders that the market just

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