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German probe finds no signs of manipulation in gold market

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Shane Strowmatt and Nicholas Comfort
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Germany's financial regulator BaFin has found no evidence to support allegations of manipulation in the gold market or that currency exchange rates were systematically rigged, according to its head of banking supervision, Raimund Roeseler.

Roeseler also said the watchdog is close to concluding a probe into alleged attempts to rig the London Interbank Offered Rate, a benchmark for borrowing costs. He didn't comment on the results of that investigation.

The probe into currency markets is still under way, he said. Roeseler spoke to Handelsblatt newspaper in an interview published in Frankfurt Monday. Oliver Struck, a spokesman for BaFin, confirmed the comments in an e-mail to Bloomberg News. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-26/german-regulator-found-no-signs...



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