Category: Market Manipulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, July 09, 2012
Learning from LI(E)BOR / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: William_Bancroft
The LIBOR scandal rolls on in the UK, eagerly observed by the rest of the world. This scandal has reached mammoth proportions and has become deeply political with politicians past and present rushing to tell the media: ‘nothing to do with me’.
What people in the UK seem most upset about is ‘the greed of bankers’, but I think what this feeling is really articulating is ire at the rewards for greed in an industry that enjoys an implicit state back-stop. Us Brits have little issue with the likes of Richard Branson, James Dyson or Alan Sugar earning large amounts of money; these individuals’ futures are properly governed by the success of the decisions they make.
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Friday, July 06, 2012
The Butterfly Effect, and The $650 Trillion LIBOR Manipulation? / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: DK_Matai
Does the flap of an electronic butterfly's wings in London or Tokyo set off a financial tornado in New York or Zürich? We strive for predictability, which eludes us more than ever before, yet we don't often stop to ask ourselves: Why? According to the butterfly effect, the slightest disturbance in one part of a system can trigger a chain of events that creates a hurricane in another part of the world. Sometimes people can joke, laugh and be dismissive of the butterfly effect. However, such effects are critical in shaping our thinking and our interlinked complex systems both man-made and natural. They predicate and have the capacity to modify our behavioural patterns and lifestyle almost immediately. What is becoming clearer, and what we shouldn't ignore, is that the "inappropriate behaviour" in regard to the London Interbank Offered Rate or LIBOR manipulation by a "small number of traders" in reality has consequences far beyond the immediate concerns of those traders themselves. Traders who we have to assume were probably motivated more by their own immediate financial gain than by some grand conspiracy to disrupt the markets. Yet, this is what they may have inadvertently done!
Thursday, July 05, 2012
LIEbor Financial Crimes, Serious Fraud Office has Serious Questions to Answer / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
LIEbor rate fixing is just one aspect of the mega financial crimes of the century that continue to be perpetuated by bankster's that earlier today were rewarded with another £50 billion of free money from their god fathers at the Bank of England.
Thursday, July 05, 2012
The Libor Interest Rate Manipulation Scandal Has Been Brewing for Years / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
The Barclays Libor manipulation scandal is the latest development out of a huge investigation in the global banking industry - one that would have started years earlier, if Money Morning's Shah Gilani was in charge of it.
You see, Libor rates are incredibly important. They're the benchmark, or "reference," rates for hundreds of trillions of dollars in loans.
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Thursday, July 05, 2012
Libor Exposure Of Banker Corruption, Bank Of England And U.S. Fed Both Implicated / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Jim_Willie_CB
Few observers make the connection, but the current LIBOR scandal is a middle inning of two important events. The first is the demise of the Western banker leadership crew. The executives from the most powerful banks will be last to be deposed, all sharing an ethnic strain. The second is the open fracture of the Western financial system. Over the past few years, to be sure a great many people have grown tired of Jackass descriptions of corruption within the banking sector and financial system in general. Well, hear this: TOLD YA SO! The London Interbank Offered Rate scandal will erupt into an uncontrollable firestorm, hitting one chamber and then the next, with rapid contagion.
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
MP's Fail to Hold Bob Diamond, Barclays to Account for Libor Fraud, Public Inquiry Needed / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The 3 hour Treasury Select Committee session has just concluded and clearly it has failed to live up to expectations as the politicians failed to hold Bob Diamond the ex-ceo of Barclays to account. The facts are that the FSA and the Bank of England are incompetent because it has taken the regulators 4 years to do only half a job.
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Labour's Dirty Finger Prints All Over Bank of England LIBOR Manipulation Crime Scene / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The mainstream press has been busy during the past 2 days working itself up into a frenzy of reporting, despite the fact that they are in effect reporting a 4 YEAR old story, something that I have touched on many, many times over the years that LIBOR rates are MANIPULATED by ALL parties concerned as a consequence of a series of credit crisis earth quakes that took place following the collapse of Northern Rock (a year before Lehman's), as fear driven Labour government politicians put pressure on a Panicking and Incompetent Bank of England to loosen the reins on the bankrupting, insolvent banks who took the increasingly nervous nods, winks and nudges as a licence to defraud counter parties to interest rate derivatives contracts (usually other banks). Now four years later the mainstream press is using a magnifying glass on just one aspect of market manipulation that took place during the financial crisis that ultimately will lead all the way to Alistair Darling's and Gordon Brown's Downing Street doors.
Monday, July 02, 2012
Silver and Financial Markets Are Manipulated, But So What? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
Someone sent this video clip to me in response to the things I have written earlier today.
I find the whole discussion absolutely remarkable when viewed from an objective, or at least a non-American and non-financial industry, point of point. The exceptionalism and denial in this is surprising to watch.
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Sunday, July 01, 2012
If Bank of England Approved LIBOR Rate Manipulation, Will Mervyn King Resign? / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Bankster's, such as Bob Diamond have just started to play their Ace card that they have held close to their chests for near 4 years now. That Ace card alledges that the Bank of England gave a nod and a wink to manipulate the LIBOR interest rates lower on several occasions during credit crisis extremes when the interbank lending market had effectively frozen.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Is The Stock Market Rally For Real…Or Just Part Of the Games Bankers Play? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: The markets are rallying, again. Will this time be different? Or is this just another head fake?
The truth is the current rally is not surprising given what's coming out of the G20 meeting, what's likely to come out of the Fed's Open Market Committee meeting today and Jamie Dimon's Congressional testimony yesterday.
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Friday, June 01, 2012
Facebook Thanks Heaven for Dumb Money! / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Bill_Bonner
Thank God for dumb money!
What would the world be without chumps? Suckers? Bagmen and patsies?
Who would buy a ladies handbag for $1,500? Or blue-jeans for $150? Who would buy an oversized show-off pickup…or a $4 million McMansion?
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Facebook - How Wall Street Really Works / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Bill_Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland – How do you like those wimpy, whiney investors? They lose money in Facebook. Do they take their losses like men? Nope.
They rush to sue everybody! The investment banks who were midwifes to the birth of FB into the public markets weren’t playing fair, they say. They gave their best clients more and better info than they fed to the public.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Open Market Manipulation of the Gold and Silver Futures Market By Banks and Producers / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Marshall_Swing
The precious metals marketplace and even main street media is all abuzz about the 7,500 contract trade, in gold, on Monday, April 30th. Gold fell $15 in the space of a minute as many news outlets reported. Speculative traders think the trade could have been a fat finger. COMEX floor traders say otherwise and think the trade was deliberate just like any other trade because no one makes a trade of that size without specific instructions.
Monday, April 30, 2012
The Risk of Investing in a Markets Full of Conmen / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Bill_Bonner
Dow up more than 100 points yesterday. Gold up $18.
Google…Apple…what more do you need to know?
“Blah, blah, blah…don’t you feel you’re wasting your time?”
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
The Criminal Manipulation of Food and Commodity Prices / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
Michael Greenberger of the University of Maryland has been an outstanding spokesperson for financial reform. I have carried his interviews before.
He served on the CFTC with Brooksley Born in the late 1990's. This is how I first became aware of his opinions about regulatory matters.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
JP Morgan Metals Market Manipulation, Blythe Masters Lays an Egg / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
On April 5, 2012, JPMorganChase commodity executive Blythe Masters appeared on CNBC, and she was questioned whether the bank is manipulating metals markets?
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Blythe Masters Speaks Out On JPM and Market Manipulation / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
A number of people have asked me what I think about Blythe Masters' interview on CNBC in which she categorically denies that JPM is involved in anything but legitimate hedging of customer positions in the silver market.
I think a detailed description of all of JPM's hedging positions in the futures and derivatives market, and the related customers and bullion holdings, should be supplied to Gary Gensler's CFTC as government regulator so they can look them over. That is what the CFTC has been asked by the people who pay them, the investing public, to do.
Friday, March 09, 2012
How Big Money and Insiders Use Options to Manipulate the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Sam_Chee_Kong
Anything that has to do with investments will be subjected to risk and return. Normally, the higher the risk the higher will be the return. Is there any investment that will provide you the opposite, where the potential risk is reduced while the return will actually increased? The answer is YES and it is through Options.
Before we delve into how ‘Big money and Insiders’ use options to manipulate the Stock Market, I think we should educate ourselves on the inner workings of the options market so that we as an investor will also can benefit from the versatility that options can offer.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
The Greatest Episodes of Market Manipulation's…Is Silver Next? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Market manipulation has a long and storied history.
From the Tulip Mania of the 1600s all the way to the recent housing bubble, market manipulators have employed a wide range of tactics to lighten the wallets of unsuspecting investors.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Failure to Rig Gold Market During Dollar Devolution, Manifest Destiny Derailed: Treason from Within / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
Something very unusual recently occurred in financial journalism. If you are from or rely on the mainstream western financial press as your primary means of being informed – you surely wouldn’t have noticed – because this ‘oddity’ involved a real act of investigative journalism by one Lars Schall.