CME Group has increased the margins on gold contracts by 22%, Bloomberg reports. The U.S. futures market will raise the initial margin requirement, or the minimum amount of cash that speculators must keep on deposit, from $6,075 per contract to $7,425. The maintenance margin requirement for gold will also be hiked from $4,500 to $5,500 per contract for speculators and hedging. Gold futures on CME’s Comex have gathered 27% in the current year.

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