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Paper markets aren't fooling everyone, Embry tells KWN

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:30a ET Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A few respectables wake up a little as others still hang back

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:50p ET Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Painful as the recent smash in the monetary metals is, at least it has aroused suspicions among a few respectables and know-it-alls.

One of them, Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter, writes today:

Telegraph's Thomas Pascoe: Gold crash is more evidence of market rigging

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Thomas Pascoe
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100024081/the-gold-pri...

The facts in the public domain do not justify the sharp fall in the gold price over the past two trading days.

Shortages, big premiums convulse retail market

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:40a ET Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Coin and bullion dealer Bill Haynes of CMI Gold and Silver in Phoenix tells King World News that shortages and big premiums are convulsing the retail market:

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/16_Bu...

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Imminent default in London required gold market smash, Maguire tells King World News

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:20p ET Monday, April 15, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells King World News tonight that the smashing of the gold price was undertaken to forestall a default in the London physical market after a run on metal and a refusal to deliver. An excerpt from the interview is posted at the King World News blog here:

Only intervention explains smashing of metals, Turk tells King World News

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:15p ET Monday, April 15, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

'Massive physical offtake' in London gold, Maguire tells King World News

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:20p ET Monday, April 15, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells King World News today that central banks and commercial traders seem to be buying all the gold paper being sold under margin pressure and that there is "massive physical offtake."

Clive Maund: Gold smash aims to rebuild JPM's Comex inventory

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:01p ET Monday, April 15, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Clive Maund writes that the gold plunge likely was engineered in large part to enable JPMorganChase to replenish its dangerously diminishing gold inventory by running weak hands out of the market.

Did single entity trigger gold plunge?

Section: Daily Dispatches

11a ET Monday, April 15, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ross Norman at bullion broker Sharps Pixley and Mark O'Byrne at gold dealer GoldCore seem to think that the gold plunge may be largely the work of shorting by a single entity.

Norman's commentary is posted at Sharps Pixley's Internet site here:

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