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Alasdair Macleod: Why they might want to rig the gold market
10:19p HKT Thursday, March 14, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Reflecting on today's report in The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering investigating possible manipulation of the gold and silver markets, particularly at the London price "fixings" --
http://www.gata.org/node/12326
-- GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod writes that the CFTC likely has been pressured by years of such allegations.
"In gold and silver futures," Macleod writes, "the commercials (basically those participants that have physical bullion risk to hedge in the market) are dominated by bullion banks that have been running extremely large short positions -- because they have substantial, or, if they are too big to fail, unlimited financial resources."
Macleod then outlines the likely motives of the possible manipulators.
His commentary is headlined "CFTC Considers London Fix Investigation" and it's posted at GoldMoney here:
http://www.goldmoney.com/gold-research/alasdair-macleod/cftc-consider-lo...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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