Kraft Foods, Mondelez Accused by CFTC of Wheat Manipulation
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Kraft Foods Group Inc. and Mondelez International Inc. were sued by a U.S. regulator over claims they made $5.4 million by manipulating the price of wheat.
In 2011, traders at the formerly-combined companies made a “huge” bet in the futures market that wheat prices would rise, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Illinois. The purpose of the trade was to entice sellers to lower wheat prices in the cash market, according to the CFTC.