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Soros and Paulson ‘Stack the Smack’

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:51
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B4INREMOTE-aHR0cDovLzMuYnAuYmxvZ3Nwb3QuY29tLy0xOGo3ZzZqTmtHdy9UbGVzbzU4OXYySS9BQUFBQUFBQUR6cy9LY04xVkVZOTVicy9zNDAwL2FiY2dvbGQuanBnFrom Bloomberg Business Week

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Billionaire investors George Soros and John Paulson increased their stakes in the biggest exchange- traded fund backed by gold as prices posted the largest quarterly drop since 2008.

Soros Fund Management more than doubled its investment in the SPDR Gold Trust to 884,400 shares as of June 30, compared with three months earlier, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing for second-quarter holdings showed yesterday. Paulson & Co. increased its holdings by 26 percent to 21.8 million shares.

Gold slumped 4 percent in the second quarter, the biggest such loss since Sept. 30, 2008. Prices fell as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke failed to increase stimulus measures, damping the outlook for global growth and demand for the metal as a hedge against inflation. The price is little changed since end-June.

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