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| Gold / Silver | 61.60 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.44 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.03 |
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 | Dan Dontrose - The Fundamental View |
 My Challenge To “Whistleblower” Andrew Maguire  |
| Readers of my blog have known for quite some time now that I grew increasingly agitated with the charlatans pumping the gold and silver price suppression memes over two years ago and have been quite vocal about it on many occasions. I want to be clear about this point before I continue. My beef isn’t with people who buy gold and silver or who feel that a portion of their portfolio should be devoted to gold or silver ownership. My beef isn’t with people that make well thought out arguments forTuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
 Silver Surges 6.8% From Lows After Slammed 10% Lower In 4 Minutes |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,353.75, EUR 1,051.95 and GBP 890.86 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,376.75, EUR 1,069.15 and GBP 903.62 per ounce.
Gold fell $22.20 on Friday to $1,364.90/oz and silver closed at $23.632.
Silver fell victim to heavy, concentrated selling overnight in thin, illiquid Asian trading. Silver was slammed by 10% and fell from $22.36/oz to $20.30/oz in just four minutes - from 23:05 GMT to 23:09 GMT.
XAG/USD Spot Exchange Rate – 1 Day (Tick)
Silver has recovered 7% of Monday, May 20, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Gold and Silver Futures Hourly Charts - Sharks With Laser Beams |
| There is not much doubt in my mind that the antics we saw in the silver, and to a lesser extent gold, markets last night were a classic hit and run, Dr. Evil market play.
It is not particularly sophisticated, more like a brazen street con, or a smash and grab. But it does require a complacent regulatory environment, and a certain regard for fellow insiders who are in a position to see what has happened and raise objections with regulators and the exchanges.
One hits a quiet market with a veryMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
 Silver Market Sunday Evening Follies  |
| A large number of silver contracts were dumped on the Comex open on Sunday evening, a very quiet market period.
This ran the 'stops' and the price.
A similar number of contracts were then bought back at a lower price. And then the market was roiled, but started to recover from a very obvious price smackdown.
It is a little hard to see it on the 15 minute chart which just looks like a lot of selling. I hear that 2500 contracts traded in 15 minutes is a near record for an off hours session.Sunday, May 19, 2013 |
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 | Philippe Herlin - GoldBroker |
| Interest Rates Manipulated to Hide Risks |
| By Philippe Herlin - Researcher in finance / Contributor to Goldbroker.com
After the LIBOR scandal, are we witnessing the ISDAfix scandal? This time it’s not about interbank lending rates, but rather about interest rates for swaps. It is estimated that the ISDAfix is active in a $380,000Billion market, just about the same size as LIBOR... and it appears that it, too, is manipulated! The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is enquiring on the matter.
Whether it’s LIBOR or ISDAfix, raTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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 | Ted Butler - Butler Research |
| The Worst Regulator Possible |
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Sticking with the theme of milestones, we’ve just crossed a few important anniversary dates that relate to silver that taken in proper perspective point to a disturbing conclusion. That conclusion is that the US commodities regulator,Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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 | Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster |
Foreign Financial Reporting of U.S. Citizens Coming. Will it Include Gold?  |
| Commodity Futures Trading Commission New Regulations Reporting Overseas TransactionsSince the start of the credit crunch in mid-2007 we have seen a steady move forward by government to place greater control over the financial aspects of people's lives. One of the biggest milestones from an investor's point of view has been the establishment of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). This is consistent with the intentions expressed by President Obama that U.S. Citizen's financial successeWednesday, May 08, 2013 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| The Next Escalation: Gold Goes 100% Initial Margin |
| Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/02/2013
The day many have predicted would come, has finally arrived: 100% initial margin on gold.
For now it is just one Futures Commission Merchant, in this case ex-CBOT traders Crossland LLC (motto: “Where Speed And Service Matter”), but tomorrow it will be another, and another.
In a dramatic flashback to the torrid days of 2011, when the CME and other exchanges desperately tried to scare away the weak hands by raising initial and maintenance margins on pWednesday, May 08, 2013 |
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| Ben Traynor - Bullion Vault |
| ETF Selling "Key Downside Risk" as Gold "Struggles in Sideways Resistance Range" |
| London Gold Market ReportWHOLESALE gold market prices fell to $1460 an ounce Tuesday morning, around ten Dollars lower than where it closed last week, as the FTSE in London ticked higher following yesterday's UK bank holiday.Other European stock markets also edged higher, while the Euro gained against the Dollar immediately following the release of better-than-expected German factory orders data.Silver meantime fell below $23.70 an ounce, nearly 2% down on the week so far, while other industrialTuesday, May 07, 2013 |
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| Ben Traynor - Bullion Vault |
| Gold Speculation and the Comex |
| What exactly does 'speculative net long' mean...?EVERY FRIDAY, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission publishes data that enable analysts to 'take the pulse' of various commodity markets.The Commitments of Traders (CoT) report gives the aggregate positions held by traders from the previous Tuesday, including the number of long contracts (that stand to benefit if prices rise) and short contracts (that benefit if they fall).Included in the CoT is positioning in gold and silver futures and optionFriday, May 03, 2013 |
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 | Bron Suchecki - Perth Mint |
| Questions from TF Metals Report readers |
| Have got engaged in some discussions on TF Metals Report. Since I've spent a bit of time responding, may as well share with readers of this blog here in one convenient spot and for my easy of reference in the future.
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victori: "I guess Bron Suchecki will make no mention of this in his blog (unless he's got something bearish to say?)"
Do you actually read my blog, this is what i said on April 22, so ZH is 8 days late: "The most interesting thing about this price drop is the reaction of retThursday, May 02, 2013 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| CFTC Probe Gold Plunge – “No Visible Central Bank Activity” Say Blackrock |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,397.00, EUR 1,070.17 and GBP 917.09 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,379.00, EUR 1,046.12 and GBP 903.14 per ounce.
Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)
Gold lost $0.20 or 0.01% yesterday to $1,373.20/oz and silver also finished with a slight loss of 0.9%.
Gold in USD, Daily – (Bloomberg)
Lower gold prices have led to a rush to buy gold coins and bars globally. Value investors and store of wealth buyers are more than happy to exchange devaluing paper currencies fFriday, April 19, 2013 |
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 | John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
| For Gold, Friday's COT Report Is Huge |
| The dominant explanation (in the sound money community at least) for the precious
metals crash is, well, sabotage. The metals exchanges were running out of physical
product and faced imminent default, so the major governments via their money
center bank proxies sold tens of billions of dollars of gold and silver futures
contracts, forcing prices down and triggering stop-loss orders and margin calls
that produced Monday's epic bloodbath.
These short positions were then covered at huge pFriday, April 19, 2013 |
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 | Fabrice Drouin Ristori - GoldBroker.com |
| Gold and Silver : Post-Crash Analysis |
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There is strictly nothing happening now on the gold and silver markets that would be related to fundamentals. This crash, just like the other ones, is orchestrated, and it doesn’t reflect the extremely tense situation on the physical gold and silver markets.
Here is how some of the significant elements are to be taken into account. I have put them in three different categories :
1) The Global ContextThursday, April 18, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| How the Gold Market Was Crashed - But Most Importantly, Why? - The Cover Up |
| Many of us are still sorting through the data to try and figure out what happened, but there was always little doubt in my mind that the recent 'flash crash' in gold was anything but a calculated takedown.
They had been trying to work the price down in stairstep fashion for quite some time. But it just wasn't enough. The pressures were building, and something had to be done. A plan for a market operation was made, and then executed. The word was quietly spread so the important monied inteThursday, April 18, 2013 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
 Gold Slam is a Massive Wealth Transfer from Our Pockets to the Banks |
| I am very disappointed by, but not surprised at, the latest transfer ofweath to the bankers from everyone else. The most recent gold bear raid has vastly enriched the bullion bankers, once again, at the expense of everyone trying to protect their wealth from global central bank money printing.
The central plank of Bernanke's magic recovery plan has been to get everybody back borrowing, spending, and "investing" in stocks, bonds, and other financial assets.Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
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| Dan Dontrose - The Fundamental View |
| Shedding Light On “How The Gold Market Was Crashed” My Discussions with Mr. Downey |
| Unless investors have been living under a rock of late, we all know what took place in the gold and silver markets this past Friday. There is no need to get into all the technical talk again. This post will deal with something completely different. As you all know I have been quite vehement in my attacks on the perma-bulls that have never wavered from their manipulation conspiracies that are especially ramped up after a significant market event like occurred this past Friday. It should be kTuesday, April 16, 2013 |
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 | Bill Downey - Gold Trends |
| How the Gold Market was crashed |
| There's been a recent huge draw down of physical gold at the New York COMEX and at the JP Morgan Chase depository. Look at the physical market draw down on the charts below. It has taken a drastic plunge.
HOUSTON -- we have a problem.
Physical inventory drawdown at JPM
Chart by Nick Laird of www.Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
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 | Deepcaster |
| Surmounting Mainstream Financial Media Spin, Distortion & Censorship |
| “Since the Financial Crisis erupted in 2007, the US Federal Reserve has engaged in dozens of interventions/ bailouts to try and prop up the financial system. Now, I realize that everyone knows the Fed is “printing money.” However, when you look at the list of bailouts/ money pumps it’s absolutely staggering how much money the Fed has thrown around….Monday, April 15, 2013 |
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