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Brazil vows to protect manufacturing with currency devaluation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Joe Leahy
Financial Times, London
Friday, March 16, 2012

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b1d9f05a-6f8b-11e1-b368-00144feab49a.html

BRASILIA -- Brazil's finance minister has vowed to hold down the value of the real and enact new measures to protect domestic industries, in an attempt to revive the country's slumping economic growth.

Financial Sense Newshour interviews Ted Butler on silver market rigging

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:10p ET Saturday, March 17, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Silver market analyst Ted Butler, discoverer of the long-term rigging of the silver market via the concentrated short position in the futures market, is interviewed about the market rigging today by Jim Puplava on the Financial Sense Newshour. You can listen to it here:

Counterintuitive takedowns in gold drawing notice, Norini tells King World News

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:49a ET Saturday, March 17, 2012

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Central banks pounce on falling gold, buying it through BIS

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jack Farchy
Financial Times, London
Friday, March 16, 2012

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4f9a6076-6f92-11e1-b3f9-00144feab49a.html

A sharp fall in gold prices has triggered large purchases of bullion by central banks in recent weeks, according to several traders with knowledge of the transactions.

Court overturns order to slash Dutch pension fund's gold allocation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Leen Preesman
Investments & Pensions Europe, London
Friday, March 16, 2012

http://www.ipe.com/news/court-overturns-dutch-regulators-order-to-slash-...

A Rotterdam, Netherlands, court has overturned the Dutch pensions regulator's recent demand that SPVG, the pension fund for glass manufacturers, divest more than three-quarters of its 13% gold allocation.

Intervention will be reduced to 'a blip on a chart,' von Greyerz says

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:10p ET Friday, March 16, 2012

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Hinde Capital's Ben Davies on financial and political repression

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:42a ET Friday, March 16, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Indian government again raises tax on gold imports to swat people into line

Section: Daily Dispatches

The essence of this is that the Indian people want gold to be their money and the Indian government doesn't want to let them have it because gold as money restricts government power.

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India Raises Gold-Import Tax for Second Time; Prices Drop

By Pratik Parija and Prabhudatta Mishra
Bloomberg News
Friday, March 16, 2012

CFTC notices market rigging by high-frequency trading but action doubtful

Section: Daily Dispatches

CFTC Targets Rapid Trades

By Scott Patterson
The Wall Street Journal
Friday, March 16, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230386340457728385069411079...

BOCA RATON, Florida -- A top U.S. regulator said his agency plans to widen day-to-day monitoring of the commodities and futures markets, targeting the high-speed trading firms that are a growing force.

Embargo of Iran could restore gold standard in southwest Asia

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Thursday, March 15, 2012

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