Banks win dismissal of U.S. silver price-fixing litigation
May 22, 20233:57 PM EDTUpdated 4 days ago
NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed long-running litigation by investors who accused HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) and Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO) of conspiring to fix...
More:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/five-banks-unlawfully-shared-information-on-government-bonds-uk-regulator-provisionally-finds-update-275f7958
Slaps on the wrist incoming for some of the actors.
Normally, my eyes glaze over when I see reports about investigations into precious metals market manipulations. I don't expect any regulators or govco investigators to do anything other sweep dirt under a rug should they happen to see anything (I'm looking at you Bart Chilton and the CFTC)...
More: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-11/u-s-said-to-open-criminal-probe-of-fx-market-rigging.html
"Don't look for it Taylor DoJ. You may not like what you find."
Great Nanex article on HFT robots caught manipulating SLV
http://www.nanex.net/aqck/2967.HTML
Also posted by ZH:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/catching-silver-crusher-algorithm-act
Here's a 141 pages presentation by some Dutch guy on gold price suppression.
He seems to be a bit conspiracy theory oriented, but the technicalities are described pretty well.
PDF:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26787064/Http-Www-youtube-com-Watch-v-zPkTItOXuN0
He put this presentation into 19...
So every day I make it a point to read Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Daily, (which I'd recommend to any of you guys out there if you don't already get it) and just as sure as the sunrise, he makes reference to silver price manipulation. Frankly, I can't remember a recent time that he hasn't.
So...
More: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/fix_was_in_bloomberg_mag_seconds_t0MKHkjTB8AMZGGj8tAbtJ
This whole thing reminds me of a puppet show. Joe Q. Public is the audience. Wall Street and FedGov take turns being the puppet and the puppet master.
Silver options expiry manipulation in one chart by Jesse´s café Américain:
http://www.jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
Not as clear as gold, but still obviously manipulated
Dave in Denver with a thought provoking blog post:
More: http://truthingold.blogspot.com/2011/12/mf-global-and-truth-about-our-entire.html
When you consider the news about miners being approached directly by buyers of size, it lends credence to the idea that the existing market system might...
The following charts clearly show that gold is beeing manipulated on an intraday scale right before the 10 am ET London PM gold fixing ( http://www.goldfixing.com/ ):
Dimitri Speck has examined the data, the following charts are from his book "Geheime Goldpolitik" (secret goldpolitics) which is...
ZH highlighted this important story today:
More: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/hank-paulson-tipped-goldman-led-plunge-protection-team-about-fannie-bankruptcy-7-weeks-advance
Background material:
- the IMF discusses the PPT (.PDF):
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr10120.pdf
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