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Thursday, March 14, 2013

CFTC looks at possible gold and silver manipulation.

Moving on from Libor, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly having an informal look at whether gold and silver prices in London are open to manipulation. Gold is set twice daily by five banks via teleconference and silver by three institutions, with the fixings then used worldwide as benchmarks for any number of transactions. The banks involved include Barclays (BCS), Deutsche Bank (DB) and HSBC (HBC).

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