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Swiss competition agency hops on gold price-rigging probe pig pile

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Swiss Watchdog Says It's Looking at Possible Gold Market Manipulation

By Joshua Franklin
Reuters
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Switzerland's competition commission WEKO is looking into possible manipulation of price fixing in the precious metals market, its spokesman said today. ...

"We have a preliminary investigation into the manipulation of gold and precious metal price fixing," the spokesman said. He declined to say which banks were involved.

The spokesman said this preliminary investigation began in 2014, without elaborating. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/swiss-banks-probe-idUSL5N0VY4F...



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