Daily Dispatches

By Gabriel Friedman
National Post, Toronto
Friday, December 7, 2018

U.S. hedge fund billionaire John Paulson’s battle to oust the entire board of directors at Toronto-based Detour Gold Corp. and replace them with his own hand-picked group officially ends when final ballots are counted on Tuesday, but he may already claim some victory.

And perhaps Detour will too.

1:20p ET Friday, December 7, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

London metals trader Andrew Maguire, interviewed today by King World News, says he alerted the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Justice Department seven years ago to the gold and silver market rigging done by a JPMorganChase trader who recently confessed in a plea bargain with the Justice Department.

By Kevin Dugan
New York Post
Thursday, December 6, 2018

At the New York Stock Exchange, some traders are more equal than others.

That's the bitter takeaway from stockbrokers, who say the Big Board, in an unusual move last week, gave special treatment to a broker at Morgan Stanley who asked to trade large blocks of stocks for several minutes after the markets closed.

Russia May Be Handing Vanezuela a $6 Billion Lifeline

By Jim Wyss
Miami Herald
Thursday, December 6, 2018

BOGOTA, Colombia -- As Washington tries to build an economic wall around Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro keeps digging tunnels.