Lacking trading data, CFTC may delay commodity position limits

``The new Dodd-Frank financial reforms require the CFTC to set position limits for commodity futures and swaps. Energy and metals limits face a mid-January deadline and agricultural market limits must be finalized in April. That timetable puts the CFTC in the awkward position of having to establish the curbs before having complete data for bilateral and over-the-counter swaps.''