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Gold market manipulation update, March 2014

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Remarks by Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Mines and Money Hong Kong Conference
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Gold manipulation is now so obvious it should embarrass the manipulators, Rickards says

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8:30a HKT Friday, March 28, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Fund manager, lawyer, geopolitical strategist, and author, the ubiquitious James G. Rickards, tells Sprott Money News this week that a forthcoming statistical study of prices on the New York Commodities Exchange demonstrates overwhelmingly that the gold price is manipulated and suppressed.

IMF bailout of Ukraine is actually rescue of Western investment houses and Russian banks

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7:50a HKT Friday, March 28, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A summary of some important news will have to suffice for this travel day.

The London Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard notes that the International Monetary Fund's bailout for Ukraine is actually a rescue of Western investment houses and Russian banks:

London to become Chinese currency trading center

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By Harry Wilson
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

London will become the first center outside Asia in which investors will be able to clear and settle Chinese renminbi trades.

The major boost to the City came after the Treasury said Britain and China would next week sign an agreement opening the way to much greater volumes of renminbi-denominated trading in the UK.

Mike Kosares: Volcker Rule starts April 1 and might push big banks out of gold

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9:48a HKT Thursday, March 27, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Speculative trading by banks is to end in the United States on April 1 upon implementation of the "Volcker Rule," Mike Kosares of Centennial Precious Metals in Denver notes today, with implications for the gold market.

Koos Jansen: A first glance at U.S. official gold reserves audits

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9:35a HKT Thursday, March 27, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Evans-Pritchard sees Russia as loser in Crimea, Roberts as winner

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9a HKT Thursday, March 27, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The London Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues today that Russia's Crimean adventure will inflict a devastating cost on the country and that China, far from being in league with Russia, is actually clawing away at its neighbor's interests in central Asia:

Intervention is killing commodity hedge funds, Turk tells KWN

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8:50a HKT Thursday, March 26, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

UBS said to suspend FX traders in New York, Zurich, and Singapore

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By Liam Vaughan, Ambereen Choudhury, and Gavin Finch
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

LONDON -- UBS suspended foreign-exchange traders in the United States, Singapore, and Switzerland as its investigation into the alleged rigging of currency markets widened, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

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