Warehouse ownership by Wall Street banks raises market manipulation suspicions
June 17, 2011 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
GATA Wall Street Eyed in Metal Squeeze By Tatyana Shumsky and Andrea Hotter The Wall Street Journal Friday, June 17, 2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230418640457638968022539464… Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other owners of large metals warehouses are being scrutinized by the London Metal Exchange after being accused by users like Coca-Cola Co. of restricting the amount of metal [...]
Peter Brimelow: Market manipulation mutterings intensify
May 6, 2011 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
GATA By Peter Brimelow MarketWatch.com Thursday, May 5, 2011 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/market-manipulation-mutterings-intensif… NEW YORK — Manipulation mutterings are spreading, and that’s ominous. Recently I noted that longtime gold bug Richard Russell of Dow Theory Letters finally converted to the thesis that gold’s price is subject to manipulation by a Wall Street-Washington alliance. Russell seems to be brooding [...]
Prosecutors investigate market manipulation through quote stuffing
May 1, 2011 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
GATA U.S. Prosecutors Probe High-Frequency, Algorithmic Trades By Joshua Gallu Bloomberg News Friday, April 29, 2011 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-29/high-frequency-trades-manipulat… U.S. prosecutors have joined regulators’ investigation into whether some high-speed traders are manipulating markets by posting and immediately canceling waves of rapid-fire orders, two officials said. Justice Department investigators are “working closely” with the Securities and Exchange Commission [...]
Zero Hedge covers pervasive market manipulation every day
September 14, 2010 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
5:27p ET Monday, September 13, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Zero Hedge continues to do a speedy and brilliant job calling attention to the manipulation that afflicts most major markets, not just gold and silver. Today Zero Hedge notes a million-dollar fine imposed on a minor investment house by the Financial Industry Regulatory [...]
Martin Hennecke on CNBC: Most market manipulation suppresses commodities, gold
August 13, 2010 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
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
July 16, 2010 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
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
May 24, 2010 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
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
April 6, 2010 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
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
February 21, 2010 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
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
October 28, 2009 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
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 [...]