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Bloomberg News: Currency spikes at 4 p.m. in London provide rigging clues

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:25a ET Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Recurring spikes in currency market pairs over the last two years look like attempts by big currency dealers to rig financial benchmarks much as the LIBOR interest rate benchmark has been manipulated, Bloomberg News reports. Maybe Bloomberg will get around to the gold market in another decade or so. Plenty of documentation of gold market rigging, underwritten by Western central banks, long has been delivered to Bloomberg by GATA. The Bloomberg report on currency market rigging is posted here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-27/currency-spikes-at-4-p-m-in-lon...

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.



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