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Trading practices at Bank of America investigated

Investigators looked at whether trading desk conducted its own trades ahead of clients

The US attorney’s office for the Western District of North Carolina and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have investigated whether a trading desk at Bank of America conducted its own futures trades before conducting those on behalf of its clients.

Bank of America last June disclosed the investigations in a regulatory personnel filing through BrokerCheck, the website run by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street's self-governing body that oversees brokers.

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