Category: Market Manipulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Flash Crash, Rigged Markets - What’s the Frequency Zenith? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: John_Mauldin
By Grant Williams
WARNING: This week’s Things That Make You Go Hmmm... is going to run a little longer than usual, I’m afraid, so if you have some time to kill, strap yourself in for the ride.
Yes. I have read it.
For the last couple of weeks those have been the five words I have used the most — by a country mile.
The second most-used five-word combination during that time has been “I know, what a tool.”
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
Manipulated Stocks Markets And The Empty Bag / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Raul_I_Meijer
Well, stocks are down substantially over the past few days, with internet and biotech taking big hits, and we see people like Marc Faber and Dennis Gartman urging people to get out of stocks. Something’s definitely going on. Time for a bunch of charts. And let’s start with a few of the comparison ones that everybody loves to hate, where you overlay when time period on another, and suggest similarities between both periods. This first one was used by Tyler Durden as an illustration for Marc Faber’s latest doom message. By the way, Faber says the markets are figuring out that the Fed is clueless, and I’m not so sure about that, I think it’s more likely that the Fed is not trying to do what it says it is, and that what it does try it does very well. And if that includes a stock market bust, it won’t hesitate. But so, here’s 1987 and 2014:
Monday, April 07, 2014
The Real Reason the Stock Market Is Rigged / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Everyone's talking about Michael Lewis' latest book Flash Boys and HFT (high-frequency trading) and whether the markets are rigged.
What they're not talking about is how the markets have been set up for institutionalized rigging.
I'm not kidding.
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Monday, February 24, 2014
A World of Manipulated Markets / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: James_Turk
“There are no markets anymore, just interventions.” — Chris Powell, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
Once upon a time, a handful of countries sometimes described as “capitalist” claimed to operate on the principal that consenting adults should be free to buy, sell, build and consume what they wanted, with little interference or guidance from the authorities. The idea, derived from Adam Smith’s 1776 classic Wealth of Nations, was that all of these self-interested actions would in the aggregate form an “invisible hand” capable of guiding society towards the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Coincidentally, the political framework for such a society was envisioned the same year on the other side of the Atlantic, when Thomas Jefferson penned in the American Declaration of Independence that in addition to life and liberty, there was a third inalienable right for every individual – the pursuit of happiness. The resulting “market-based” societies were messy but brilliant, producing more progress in two centuries than in the previous 50.
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Sunday, February 09, 2014
Financial, Gold, Stocks Markets Manipulation's Becoming More Extreme, More Desperate / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
In two recent articles we explained the hows and whys of gold price manipulation. The manipulations are becoming more and more blatant. On February 6 the prices of gold and stock market futures were simultaneously manipulated.
On several recent occasions gold has attempted to push through the $1,270 per ounce price. If the gold price rises beyond this level, it would trigger a flood of short-covering by the hedge funds who are “piggy-backing” on the bullion banks’ manipulation of gold. The purchases by the hedge funds in order to cover their short positions would drive the gold price higher.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Market Price Manipulation Awareness May Keep the Mainstream Away / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
If the new-found mainstream awareness of price manipulation of precious metals is embraced with anything close to the impact of LIBOR and similar scandals, the news may ultimately be a sweet sorrow.
The Financial Times is a long time staunch defender of the status quo and therefore, by default, negative and misguided toward precious metals. Recently, for the first time, the publication broke a story about price manipulation in the gold market.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Colossal Fraud - There are No Free Markets - Video / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Videos
Financial analyst Rob Kirby says, “There is colossal fraud and price control going on. There are no free markets.” Kirby goes on to say, “What we’ve seen over the last six months is a ramp-up in interest rate swaps to the tune of $12 trillion . . . . What the build in these interest rate swaps is achieving, it’s stemming the rise in interest rates.” Kirby, who has 15 years experience in trading derivatives, says these complicated derivatives overseen by the U.S. Treasury control the price of virtually everything. Kirby contends, “I refer to this as a price control grid.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Manipulations Rule The Markets / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
The Federal Reserve’s announcement on December 18 that beginning in January its monthly purchases of mortgage-backed financial instruments and US Treasury bonds would each be cut by $5 billion is puzzling, as is the financial press’s account of the market’s response.
The Federal Reserve conveys a contradictory message. The Fed says that improvements in employment and the economy justify cutting back on bond purchases.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
Federal Reserve Antics - I Don’t Know Whether to Laugh or Cry / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Profit_Confidential
Michael Lombardi writes:
After yesterday’s Federal Reserve antics, we were taken by the reaction of one well-known writer, who said, “I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.” That is truly the most apt phrase for the current situation.
To sum up the bigger picture:
Almost 100 years ago to the day, the U.S. “subcontracted” money and the banking system to third parties. These third parties called themselves the “Federal Reserve” but, of the few unchallenged facts one can determine about the actual ownership of the Fed, it becomes clear they are neither “federal” nor a “reserve.”
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Dark Pools of Capital Should Be Closed / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Bloomberg
John Thain--chairman and CEO of CIT Group, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and former CEO of NYSE--sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle on "Market Makers" yesterday. Thain said that there is too much fragmentation and insufficient transparency in the stock market and that dark pools should be eliminated.
Thain went on to speak about bank compensation, saying that pay and talent can emphasize risk management and that "the problem is bonus is a bad word these days."
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
J P Morgan and Commodity Manipulation / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: BATR
The practices and methods of manipulating commodity markets, is a staple topic in financial journalism. Options, futures and exotic forms of derivatives, often put under the microscope, gives rise to calls for substantive regulation. One area of the commodity trade, seldom examined is that involved with physical commodities trading. With much fanfare, Under siege, JPMorgan to quit physical commodities, a Reuters announcement has many seasoned street professionals shocked.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Goldman Sachs' "Warehouse Shuffle" Just Cost You $5 Billion / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: It's just another game for Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) - a "warehouse shuffle" that moves aluminum around while the big bank collects rent on the metal.
Although the rent on the stored aluminum - Goldman isn't allowed to actually own the commodity - is just pennies a day, the vast amount of the metal it has stored in its 27 Detroit warehouses and the "warehouse shuffle" strategy that enables it to extend the rental period for months on end adds up.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Barclays, Energy Regulators Versus Market Riggers / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Andrew_McKillop
WORLDWIDE PROBLEM
Hailed as Croatia stepping out of the shadows left by the break up of Yugoslavia and the ethnic cleansing war of the 1990s, and following 8 years of negotiations, on July 1st Croatia became the 28th member of the E.U. One of its first decisions was to join the little-heard-of CEER or Council of European Energy Regulators, as well as engaging in higher profile bargaining about which Croatian politician will become the 28th Commissioner of the E.C.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Dark Pools of Liquidity Are a Big Problem for Free Markets / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Greg Madison writes: Everything runs on liquidity. Unless you know something I don't, that dollar bill in your pocket is just as likely to buy a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon today as it was yesterday, and will be tomorrow.
Or you could sell 1,000 lbs. of gold - if you have that lying around - without fear of completely scuttling the global gold market. Your bank has to have cash, liquidity, lying around somewhere in the back if it wants to stay in business.
And in many cases, it's easy to see or verify this liquidity. It helps everyone feel better about doing anything.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Banks Manipulating Trades and Rigging Benchmarks in Foreign Exchange Markets / Currencies / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
Are there any markets that have not been corrupted by lax regulation and Banks who have been emboldened in their insatiable greed by the lack of effective enforcement of the rules and equal justice for all?
It is somewhat ironic that this news comes on the revelation that Obama is replacing Gary Gensler, Chairman of the CFTC, for being too aggressive in seeking to regulate the Swaps markets and angering some foreign banks (read London trading operations of the big multinational banks). London has become a favored haven for corrupt financial practices.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The Truth About "Dark Pool" Trading / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Well, this ought to be interesting - not for what might be revealed, but for what will likely remain in the shadows.
One of the weakest, least effective regulatory bodies around, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), is now saying they want to shed some light on "dark pools."
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Why Bernanke's Market Manipulation's Are So Brilliant / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Nothing lasts forever, apparently not even quantitative easing.
On Wednesday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke threatened to take away the massive punch bowl that's been spiked with easy money juice.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
U.S. Bogus GDP Economic Growth Statistics - More Government Manipulation / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Gary Gately writes: America's about to become more wealthy - on paper, at least.
That's because the way the country's gross domestic product, or U.S. GDP, is measured will change significantly come July 31, enough to boost the closely watched economic barometer by 3%, or $400 billion.
That translates to the equivalent of about $1,500 more worth of goods and services per person in the United States.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Matt Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged - The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
“The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more, and tolerated by all.”
Tacitus
There are more scandals to come. Wall Street is now a pathological environment, and the City of London is as bad or worse.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Confiscation, Market Manipulation and the Wars Against Everyman / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Confiscation — both direct and indirect forms — and market manipulation tend to go hand in hand when it comes to forecasting the silver market’s future.
Furthermore, ongoing silver pricing issues include the overwhelming concentration of silver shorts, as bullion banks act like producers and push paper prices lower without ever being forced to deliver physical metal into a futures contract.
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