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Alasdair Macleod: Gold and interest rates
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-12-04 10:01 Section: Daily Dispatches10a ET Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
At London conference Hathaway predicts implosion of paper gold
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-12-04 09:51 Section: Daily Dispatches9:45a ET Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
EU Imposes E1.7 billion in fines on banks in rate-rigging scandal
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-12-04 08:39 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Chad Bray and Jack Ewing
The New York Times
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union has fined a group of global financial institutions, including for the first time two American banks, a combined 1.7 billion euros to settle charges they colluded to fix two benchmark interest rates.
Bullion smuggling outstrips narcotics to feed India's gold habit
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-12-04 08:30 Section: Daily DispatchesBy A. Ananthalakshmi and Siddesh Mayenkar
Reuters
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Indian gold smugglers are adopting the methods of drug couriers to sidestep a government crackdown on imports of the precious metal, stashing gold in imported vehicles and even using mules who swallow nuggets to try to get them past airport security.
Robin Bromby: Golden lining for yuan as China stocks up on price slump
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-12-04 08:24 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Robin Bromby
The Australian, Sydney
Monday, December 2, 2013
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/golden-lining-for-yuan-...
For gold to make it a 12th straight year of rising prices, the yellow metal would need to add $US427 an ounce between now and December 31.
Silver mining company says it's helpless against market manipulation
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2013-12-03 21:51 Section: Daily Dispatches9:54p ET Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
A GATA supporter wrote the other day to the investor relations officer of a silver mining company in which he is invested to complain about the company's seeming indifference to the manipulation of the monetary metals markets. He soon received this reply:
Grant Williams, Jean-Marie Eveillard interviewed at KWN
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2013-12-03 21:13 Section: Daily Dispatches9:08p ET Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Two gold-related interviews are excerpted at King World News today.
The first is with Singapore precious metals fund manager Grant Williams, editor of the "Things That Make You Go Hmmm. ..." letter:
The silence of the blockheads -- maybe soon to be dead silence
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-12-02 21:31 Section: Daily Dispatches9:49p ET Monday, December 2, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Regulators may enact Volcker Rule next week -- and delay its implementation
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-12-02 17:54 Section: Daily DispatchesVolcker Rule Said Set for Dec. 10 Approval by U.S. Agencies
By Jesse Hamilton
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/volcker-rule-said-set-for-dec-1...
Gold smashdowns create more demand than shake metal loose: Turk
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-12-02 17:21 Section: Daily Dispatches5:20p ET Monday, December 3, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: