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Seven banks fined in Swiss probes of rate-rigging cartels
By Cindy Roberts and Donal Griffin
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Switzerland handed out about $100 million in antitrust fines against seven U.S. and European banks for participating in cartels to manipulate widely used financial benchmarks.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. was fined 33.9 million francs ($33 million) for operating a cartel with Royal Bank of Scotland Group for more than a year, with the aim of influencing the Swiss franc Libor benchmark, which is tied to the London interbank offered rate, Switzerland's competition commission said in a statement Wednesday. RBS received immunity for revealing the existence of the cartel, which operated between March 2008 and July 2009. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-21/jpmorgan-barclays-fin...
Market Analyst Fabrice Taylor Expects K92 Shares to Rise
as Company Commences Gold Production and Gains Cash Flow
Interviewed on Business News Network in Canada, market analyst and financial letter writer Fabrice Taylor said shares of K92 Mining (TSXV:KNT) are likely to rise, even amid declining gold prices, because the company has begun producing gold at its mine in Papua New Guinea:
http://www.bnn.ca/video/fabrice-taylor-discusses-k92-mining~1008356
Taylor cited the company's announcement here:
http://www.k92mining.com/2016/11/6114/
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