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Regulators probe currency benchmarks and frontrunning by Bank of America

Section: Daily Dispatches

Exclusive: Global Regulators Eye Forex Benchmarks After Rigging Probe

By Douwe Miedema
Reuters
Friday, January 24, 2014

WASHINGTON -- A powerful global financial regulator will scrutinize benchmarks used in currency trading, it said on Friday, a first sign that the largely unregulated market may be kept on a tighter leash after allegations of manipulation.

China's weekly gold offtake again exceeds world mine production, Koos Jansen reports

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:35a ET Sunday, January 26, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold offtake at the Shanghai gold exchange for the week ending January 17 continued to be greater than world gold mine production, gold researcher and GATA Koos Jansen reports today:

http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/week-3-2014-withdrawals-from-sge-vaults-60-t...

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

King World News has market analysis from von Greyerz, Pento

Section: Daily Dispatches

10p ET Saturday, January 25, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold figures in the market analysis offered today at King World News by Swiss gold fund manager Egon von Greyerz --

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/1/25_Wh...

-- and Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategies:

Zero Hedge marvels at the FT's acknowledgment of gold market manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:20p ET Saturday, January 25, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Zero Hedge's Tyler Durden today joins GATA in marveling at the Financial Times' allowing the paper gold fraud and gold market manipulation to be acknowledged in its pages yesterday:

http://www.gata.org/node/13562

Willem Middelkoop summarizes Western central banking's war against gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:13a ET Saturday, January 25, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Willem Middelkoop, author of the new book "The Big Reset," gives an excellent summary of Western central banking's gold price suppression scheme in the second part of his interview with gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen. It's posted at Jansen's Internet site, In Gold We Trust, here:

World mints working overtime to fill coin demand

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Paul Ebeling
Live Trading News, Singapore
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Austria's Mint is running 24 hours a day to meet orders for gold coins, joining those from the United States to Australia in reporting accelerating demand boosted by the Bear market in bullion.

HSBC imposes restrictions on large cash withdrawals

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Bob Howard
British Broadcasting Corp., London
Friday, January 24, 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25861717

Some HSBC customers have been prevented from withdrawing large amounts of cash because they could not provide evidence of why they wanted it, the BBC has learnt.

Buyers of physical picking off bullion at every London fix, Maguire says

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:35p ET Friday, January 24, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Longs are taking control of the London gold market and "the physical buyers are picking off the bullion at every single fix," metals trader and market-rigging whistleblower Andrew Maguire tells King World News today:

Alasdair Macleod: Updating fiat money quantity relative to gold and silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:40p ET Friday, January 24, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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