If an entity moves commodities prices to manipulate the stock market, is that against the law?

Question

The commodities exchange is regulated by one government organization and the stock market by another, right?

Does one even give a hoot about the other?

Answer 1

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

Milton Friedman

Answer 2

There is no law against going to Wal-Mart and buying all the Budweisers you can find.

If you have enough money then you can buy all the Budweisers in all the stores in your city or the whole company just like InBev from Belgium.

Answer 3

That isn't how the market works. It is impossible for one particular entity to have that much purchasing power. Even market makers can't move commodities in order to drive the price of a particular stock up or down. Traders and speculators  may invest heavily in a particularstock or a commodity, by taking either a long (bullish) or short (bearish) position, but not in one market to move another market. Even in these times, some oil, gas, and coal companies do better than others, while the costs of the commodities have all increased, it depends on a lot of factors if an individual stock fairs well, such as the financial health of the company,a good management team, whether it is indebted, how much of the resource it has ready to take out of the ground, how much it has committed to drilling, etc. For instance, some of the oil refiners have done really poorly, because the price to make oil into gasoline, diesel, heating oil, have gone up, causing the crack spread to decline. It also matters if the company sold all or part of it's inventory in advance. Some of those companies haven't increased in price because they pre-sold at lower prices. Hope this explanation helps!

The only ones who seem to care about regulating the commodities markets further are the democrats. They also want to nationalize the oil industry. You can be sure that any such actions will not benefit the consumer.