CFTC Might Regulate Bloomberg

Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) might regulate the relationship between Bloomberg’s trading business on its terminals and its news operation. CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton explained during Thursday at CNBC’s Squawk Box program that if trading arm may have an effect on the news arm, CFTC should be able to look at them. There was this interesting story last week, whereby Bloomberg journalists used privileged access provided by their company to get information from the Bloomberg accounts of certain clients. Bloomberg journalists were able to obtain information of some of their clients in order to produce certain articles or check certain…