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Speculative investment 'should be curbed'

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Through his hedge fund, Armajaro, City trader Anthony Ward has bought $658 million of cocoa beans, the largest single purchase in 14 years.

Chris Skinner, who chairs the Financial Services Club and Tim Jones, from the anti-poverty group the World Development Movement, discuss the introduction of new limits to stop speculators influencing the market in coffee, cocoa and wheat.


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