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Deutsche Bank to pay C$5.5 million to settle Canadian gold and silver market-rigging cases

Section: Documentation

2:18p ET Monday, February 11, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay nearly C$5.5 million to settle class-action lawsuits in Canada accusing the bank of manipulating the gold and silver markets, according to the Toronto law firm representing the plaintiffs.

Robert Lambourne: Is BIS using swaps to recover central bank gold?

Section: Documentation

By Robert Lambourne
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Disclosures in the recent monthly statements of account published by the Bank for International Settlements show that the bank is still actively trading in gold swaps, which the bank uses to gain access to gold held by commercial banks.

CFTC refuses to address GATA's questions about gold and silver market rigging

Section: Documentation

12:25p ET Thursday, December 13, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has refused to reply to or even to acknowledge GATA's questions about manipulation of the gold and silver futures markets that are purportedly regulated by the commission.

BIS gold swaps fall in November but bank continues secret trading

Section: Documentation

By Robert Lambourne
Saturday, December 8, 2018

November saw a continuation of significant trading in gold swaps by the Bank for International Settlements.

After falling in August and September, the BIS' purchases of gold via gold swaps soared in October, falling back by around 64 tonnes in November.

Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: Those 'exchange for physicals' at Comex aren't real

Section: Documentation

11:44a ET Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Volcker's updated autobiography urges gold price suppression

Section: Documentation

11p ET Sunday, November 18, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With the latest version of his autobiography, published last month, "Keeping At It -- the Quest for Sound Money and Good Government" --

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/paul-volcker/keeping-at-it/978...

With BIS intervention rising sharply in October, gold price stalled

Section: Documentation

By Robert Lambourne
Friday, November 9, 2018

After falling in August and September, intervention in the gold market by the Bank for International Settlements via gold swaps increased substantially in October, according to the bank's monthly statement of account, published this week:

https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc181031.pdf

Ex-Morgan trader pleads guilty to rigging monetary metals, implicates supervisors at bank

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How did that "exhaustive" investigation of the silver market by the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission miss this? How will the World Gold Council and most monetary metals mining companies continue to miss it? How many more anti-trust lawsuits will this prompt? Anybody seen Blythe Masters lately?

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Chris Powell at New Orleans conference: Gold market manipulation update, Nov. 2018

Section: Documentation

The slides for this presentation can be viewed here:

http://gata.org/files/GATA-NOLA-2018-PPT-PDF-11-1-2018.pdf

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Remarks by Chris Powell
Secretary/Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
New Orleans Investment Conference
Friday, November 2, 2018

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