JPMorgan, HSBC sued for alleged silver conspiracy

JPMorgan, HSBC sued for alleged silver conspiracy By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK | Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:20pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co and HSBC Holdings Plc were hit with two lawsuits on Wednesday by investors who accused them of conspiring to drive down silver prices, and reaping an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profits. The...

Act Now, CFTC Is Urged

By Susan Pulliam & Carolyn CuiA Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator is putting pressure on the agency to take action in a high-profile, two-year-old investigation of the silver market.  At a CFTC hearing Tuesday to consider new rules to strengthen its commodity-enforcement powers, commissioner Bart Chilton said market...

Silver Subject to Price Manipulation, Chilton Says

By Asjylyn Loder and Pham-Duy Nguyen - Oct 26, 2010 6:17 PM GMT  As an investigation of the silver market by the top U.S. commodity regulator entered a third year, a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said today there have been “repeated attempts” to influence prices.  “There have been fraudulent...

Speculators polish up the price of silver

By Jack Farchy in London Published: October 20 2010 17:37 | Last updated: October 20 2010 17:37 “Almost anything is better than paper money ... any fool can run a printing press.” These are not the words of a modern-day gold bug, but attributed to Nelson Bunker Hunt, the billionaire oil baron who went long on silver in the 1970s. So long, in fact, that he and his brother cornered the market,...

Momentum to propel silver price to new levels.

JOHANNESBURG -  Author: David Levenstein Posted:  Thursday , 14 Oct 2010 In 1980, the price of silver exploded upwards and traded above $50 an ounce. I recall this very clearly because I was trading silver through the London Metals Exchange (LME). In those days, the contract offered by the LME was 10,000 ounces,...

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October 2, 2010 - An Unexpected Boost for Silver

By PiercePoints by Dave Forest I wrote last week about Asia’s love for platinum. This week, it’s looking like there’s a new “hot item” in the East. Silver. Open interest in silver on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange has been on a tear. Since last Friday, outstanding contracts have jumped 20%. It would be tempting to chalk the rising interest...

03 Oct 2010 - Investors see silver lining in economic gloom

By Garry White Published: 7:00PM BST 03 Oct 2010 Silver prices have risen 31pc in 2010 to a 30-year high, outperforming gold, equities and most base metals. On Tuesday, the gold-silver ratio dropped below 60 for the first time in 11 months. The gold-silver ratio is simply the number of ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce...