Adrian Douglas: CFTC admits hiding info exposing market manipulation

By Adrian Douglas, GATA
Recently while reviewing the bank participation reports (BPR) released each month by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading commission I noticed that, since November 2009, in silver and in some other commodities the CFTC has stopped listing the number of banks that hold positions.
So GATA sent an inquiry to the CFTC as to why [...]

Two more warnings of pervasive market manipulation

7:45p ET Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In a new essay Zero Hedge’s Dan Ivandjiiski, writing as the pseudonymous Tyler Durden, explains how “the Federal Reserve has now managed to singlehandedly take over the entire capital market” via its Primary Dealer Credit Facility, which essentially subsidizes the major New York investment houses [...]

Copper’s continuing rise prompts talk of market manipulation

As Copper Price Rises, Rumors Abound of Market Manipulators
By Louise Armitstead, The Telegraph
All is not well at the London Metal Exchange, where the name of “Mr Copper” is once again being whispered among traders.
While the global recession has hit most commodities hard, the red metal has defied gravity and last week hit highs for 2009. [...]

Market manipulation and insider trading with the exchange’s OK

Stock Traders Find Speed Pays, in Milliseconds
By Charles Duhigg, The New York Times
It is the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for a handful of traders to master the stock market, peek at investors’ orders, and, critics say, even subtly manipulate share prices.
It is called high-frequency trading — and it is suddenly one [...]

Market manipulation obvious to CNBC analysts

6:40p ET Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
For five minutes Monday morning CNBC market analysts discussed how obvious U.S. government manipulation of the financial markets has become. If manipulation is obvious to CNBC analysts now, soon even some mainstream gold market analysts may have trouble denying it. You can watch the CNBC [...]

Market manipulation figures in economic war game

Pentagon Prepares for Economic Warfare
By Eamon Javers
Politico.com, Arlington, Virginia
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis.
The two-day event near Fort Meade, [...]