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VIX manipulation costs investors billions, whistle-blower tells CFTC
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-02-12 20:53 Section: Daily DispatchesThink how easy it is for central banks themselves to do this stuff, easier still since mainstream financial news organizations will never question them about their market interventions.
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By Brian Louis and Nikolaj Gammeltoft
Bloomberg News
Monday, February 12, 2018
Gold giant Barrick faces grilling after fall to the bottom of the pack
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-02-12 11:39 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Danielle Bochove
Bloomberg News
Monday, February 12, 2018
Barrick Gold Corp. executives will have some explaining to do when the company releases full-year results Wednesday.
The Economist: Insider trading has been rife on Wall St., academics conclude
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-02-12 07:28 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom The Economist, London
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest posted in the clear at GoldSeek
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2018-02-10 22:18 Section: Daily Dispatches10:20p ET Saturday, February 10, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest letter for today, reviewing Friday's action in the monetary metals markets, has been posted in the clear at GoldSeek here:
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1518376140.php
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
Mike Kosares: The anatomy of volatility and what it means for gold
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2018-02-10 18:17 Section: Daily Dispatches6:19p ET Saturday, February 10, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
USAGold's Mike Kosares today cites a Swiss Finance Institute study concluding that market crashes tend to follow a period of low volatility, that volatility can spike for months, and that "in recent history volatility has preceded upward movement in the gold price."
Fed will have to choose between rates and stocks, Sprott says
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2018-02-09 17:22 Section: Daily Dispatches5:23p ET Friday, February 9, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
China ends 25-year wait as yuan oil futures to start trading March 26
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2018-02-09 16:55 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Bloomberg News
Friday, February 9, 2018
After a wait of about a quarter of a century, the world's biggest oil buyer is finally getting its own crude-futures contract.
Dollar will stay weak if China has its way, Morgan Stanley says
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2018-02-08 07:41 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Justina Lee
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
As China's currency trades near to its highest level against the greenback since the 2015 devaluation, don't expect the government to engineer a reversal any time soon, according to Morgan Stanley.
U.S. deliberately keeping dollar low, ECB's Nowotny tells newspaper
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2018-02-08 07:37 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
VIENNA, Austria -- The United States Treasury Department is deliberately putting downward pressure on the dollar, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said in comments published today.
Bears Ears is open for mining but no one bothered to show up
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2018-02-07 09:44 Section: Daily DispatchesWhy get into a business whose prices are suppressed by surreptitious government intervention in the markets?
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By Joe Deaux
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Early last Friday morning, vast swathes of the red-rock high plateau that surrounds federally protected buttes in southern Utah were officially thrown open to miners.