21.   Regulators want to know whether he used the financing in efforts to manipulate the copper market or to mask his trading losses, the Wall Street Journal reported.

22.   Regulators want to know whether Hamanaka used the financing in efforts to manipulate the copper market or to mask his trading losses, the Wall Street Journal reported.

23.   Right now the world copper market is being flooded with copper from Chile and Indonesia, where the mining costs are lower and the mines are newer.

24.   Several analysts have forecast the copper market will move into surplus in the second half of the year as new supply comes onstream, resulting in lower prices.

25.   Some hedge funds were investing in the copper market for several months in anticipation of lower prices.

26.   Some market participants said the copper market was simply regaining some of the ground lost during recent days.

27.   Soros, though, withdrew from the copper market about two months before Black began his profitable round of selling.

28.   Still, the Nymex copper market is too weak to threaten the LME in the immediate future, University of London professor Gilbert said.

29.   Still, commodity analysts know by now that nothing is quite as it seems in the copper market.

30.   The Fed, which regulates many major U.S. banks, made the inquiry as it gauged potential losses that banks faced in the copper market.