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VIX manipulation costs investors billions, whistle-blower tells CFTC

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Think 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

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By 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.

Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest posted in the clear at GoldSeek

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:20p 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

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6:19p 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

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5:23p 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

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From 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

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By 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

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From 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

Section: Daily Dispatches

Why 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.

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