Martin Hennecke on CNBC: Most market manipulation suppresses commodities, gold

9a ET Friday, August 13, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver): Gold price suppression was discussed openly on CNBC on Thursday, this time by Tyche Group’s associate director, Martin Hennecke, interviewed from Hong Kong. Hennecke remarked that most global markets are manipulated, that most manipulation aims to suppress commodity prices, and that [...]

FT stumbles into central bank admissions of market manipulation

Puzzle over Banque de France’s Lehman Role By Henny Sender Financial Times, London Wednesday, July 7, 2010 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7834dc62-89e5-11df-bd30-00144feab49a.html When Lehman Brothers engaged in the Repo 105 deals that flattered its balance sheet to the tune of $50 billion, a string of powerful banks acted as counterparties. But according to financial experts sifting through the Lehman [...]

GoldCore’s O’Byrne interviews rogue trader Leeson about market manipulation

10p ET Monday, May 24, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Gold and other market manipulation, GATA, and the British gold dishoarding of a decade ago come up in an interview with the infamous former Barclays Bank rogue trader Nick Leeson done by Mark O’Byrne, executive director of the Anglo-Irish bullion dealer GoldCore. It’s [...]

ECB Gold Data Feeds Suspicions of Market Manipulation

The Prudent Investor submits: Noticing an increase in investigative stories concerning manipulation of gold prices with paper contracts on the world’s futures exchanges that sound plausible, this blogger took a closer look at the European Central Bank’s (ECB) gold data, only to arrive at a conclusion that feeds these suspicions. With the extended Central Bank [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]