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UK Criminalization of Benchmark Manipulation: Don’t Be Tricked Into Missing Primary Sources of Precious Metals Manipulation — Eric Dubin
TND Exclusive: Eric Dubin |
UK lawmakers are considering ways to ratchet-up regulations against manipulation of 7 market benchmarks. While manipulation of LIBOR and the rigging of precious metals markets benchmark rates are already illegal, it’s nevertheless productive to see pressure being brought to bear on parliament.
But here’s the rub: when it comes to precious metals market manipulation, the mainstream has been focused on the London a.m. and p.m. fixes, and making an analogy to the LIBOR fixing scandal. Unfortunately, this has the net result in misdirecting the attention of mainstream investors, journalists, lawmakers and surprisingly, even some pundits within the precious metals community. Fixing the rigging of the gold and silver fix price will do very little to stop the ways gold and silver are manipulated. The dumping of massive amounts of “paper” gold and silver, high frequency trading, and many other tools within the cartel’s bag of tricks play far greater a role in leading precious metals markets by the nose.
Don’t be distracted by lawmakers exclaiming that they will fix the fix. Don’t let financial media spin the story either. This reform meme runs the risk of proving to be one giant diversion away from where the real skeletons are buried — and that’s exactly what the powers that be would like to see.
The U.K. plans to criminalize the manipulation of seven more benchmarks from foreign exchange to gold http://t.co/KMtv9QnTJu
— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) September 25, 2014
Source: http://thenewsdoctors.com/uk-criminalization-of-benchmark-manipulation-dont-be-tricked-into-missing-primary-sources-of-precious-metals-manipulation-eric-dubin/
