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Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy, blames hackers for losses
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2014-02-28 12:38 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Yoshifumi Takemoto and Sophie Knight
Reuters
Friday, February 28, 2014
TOKYO -- Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due to hacking into its faulty computer system. ...
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Alasdair Macleod: Gold in 2013 -- the foundation for 2014
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2014-02-28 08:47 Section: Daily Dispatches8:45p ET Friday, February 28, 2014
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GATA secretary discusses gold-rigging studies, West's war on developing countries
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2014-02-28 08:37 Section: Daily Dispatches8:37a ET Friday, February 28, 2014
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London gold fix study shows signs of decade of manipulation by bullion banks
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2014-02-27 20:47 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Liam Vaughn
Bloomberg News
Thursday, February 27, 2014
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-28/gold-fix-study-shows-signs-of-d...
The London gold fix, the benchmark used by miners, jewelers, and central banks to value the metal, may have been manipulated for a decade by the banks setting it, researchers say.
Grant Williams: Return of speculators or a delivery default will prompt gold's next rise
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2014-02-27 20:18 Section: Daily Dispatches8:16p ET Thursday, February 27, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Singapore-based fund manager Grant Williams today tells King World News that gold will stop basing and resume its rise when speculators come back into the market and join the regular investors -- or when there is a delivery default. An excerpt from his interview is posted at the King World News blog here:
Koos Jansen: China's gold trade numbers broke all records in 2013
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2014-02-27 20:11 Section: Daily Dispatches8:10p ET Thursday, February 27, 2014
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Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2014-02-27 19:50 Section: Daily DispatchesBritish Man Charged with Hacking Federal Reserve Computers
By Jonathan Stempel
Reuters
Thursday, February 27, 2014
NEW YORK -- A British man has been charged with hacking into computer servers belonging to the U.S. Federal Reserve, and then widely disclosing personal information of people who use them.
Biggest gold ETF has first monthly inflow in over a year
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2014-02-27 12:29 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jan Harvey
Reuters
Thursday, February 27, 2014
LONDON -- The world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, New York's SPDR Gold Shares, is on track for its first monthly inflow of metal in more than a year after a run of weaker U.S. data boosted investment interest in gold.
'Precarious' moment for gold traders, Kaye and Fitzpatrick tell KWN
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2014-02-26 23:23 Section: Daily Dispatches11:20p ET Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Hong Kong fund manager William Kaye tonight tells King World News that gold traders face a "precarious" moment. And Citigroup analyst Tom Fitzpatrick gives KWN a gold chart that doesn't look good for the next few days. Their analysis is posted at the KWN blog here:
Gold fix rigging may finance banker bonuses, Sprott says
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2014-02-26 15:28 Section: Daily Dispatches3:25p ET Wednesday, February 26, 2014
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