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The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) said on Thursday it appointed Morgan Stanley as a market maker, underscoring the ambitions of some banks to expand into precious metals trading while others exit due to stringent regulations.

How Much Gold is on Loan?, Stock Market Collapse To Accelerate, Regulators and Banks Settle on the Backs of Depositors, Extreme PM Shorting Peaks, Silver Price-Fixing Lawsuits

Central Bank Gold Agreements (CBGA), total gold sales, all signatories

An important agreement was signed on Saturday, October 11, between the large global banks “under pressure from regulators” and it relates to derivatives and, more specifically, the CDSs, or credit default swaps.

We can’t speak about the manipulation of the gold price today without understanding the derivatives market. Right after the crash of 2000 in the stock market I became alarmed by the exponential increase of derivative products but especially by the complexity of those products.

New charts which show the daily/weekly/monthly flows in & out of the warehouses for gold and silver.

The Calm Before the Storm, Swiss Gold Referendum, Final Capitulation, Forex manipulation, Chinese Gold Imports, US Mint Record Silver Eagle Sales

Chris Powell has covered many aspects of the Western gold price suppression scheme last week on "The Larry Parks Show," broadcast on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in New York.

The Hong Kong Imports into China are only a fraction of the gold delivered through the SGE.

Central banks have kept silent about this but it’s hard to believe that manipulating the foreign exchange market isn’t part of their policies; it’s probably also part of their new strategy.

An unexpected precipitating event like a black swan event in this uncertain environment will push gold and silver up with a quantum leap with gold leading. The geopolitical and economic environment in the last few months was in my view the calm before the storm.

Net gold imports into China via Hong Kong were 27 tonnes for the month of August.     The Hong Kong route has gone from being the major source for Chinese imports to a minor one as can be seen in the second chart where SGE Withdrawals were almost 190 tonnes for the month of August....

On 30 November 2014 the Swiss People has the opportunity to determine not just the fate of their own financial system but also to be the catalyst for the return to sound money in the Western World.

Parabolic moves always end in capitulation. Is it possible to go even further into this panic selling which now seems to feed itself, with long-term investors capitulating?

Gold holdings fell 0.54 m/oz for the week whilst silver holdings rose 2.4 m/oz.

It appears that the PM's put in a cyclical bottom today which if it is the case then we now have a tripple bottom in place for gold - a rare event.