Die klaarblyklike rede was dat die internasionale magselite 'n “globale koördinasie” vir inmenging in banke se sake kon bewerkstellig.

Waarnemers wat die die wêreld se geldmag-elite (met die Amerikaanse regering sy pop) onder oog hou is bekommerd oor die groot slagting onder goudaandele op die internasionale beurse.

Die verhandelingwaarde van goud op die markte het gister die meeste in 30 jaar getuimel. Daar word reeds vir 'n geruime tyd op behoudende oorsese webwerwe gegis dat 'n vryval-situasie vir goud voor die deur is.

Die bomontploffings gister tydens die Boston-marathon, waarin mense dood en vermink is, word ook deur hierdie waarnemers met ernstige wantroue en voorbehoude beskou. Dit word reeds op 'n webwerf soos Global Research as 'n vals vlag-operasie van die Amerikaanse inligtingsdienste, wat glo ook betrokke sou wees by die 9/11/2001-ramp in New York, beskou. Daar word aangevoer dat die Amerikaanse Federale Speurdiens (FBI) al tevore aan terreurgroepe springstof en opleiding verskaf het vir sulke valsvlag-operasies.

Die doelwit van sulke projekjte, so word gegis, is gemik op die sielkundige manipulasie van die bevolking. In Suid-Afrika het ons byvoorbeeld in die 1990's, kort na ANC-bewindsoorame, gesien hoe internasionale krieketwedstryd-uitslae ingespan is (deel van die sogenaamde Hansie-skandaal?) om die bewegings van die rand se wisselkoers te manipuleer en Blankes aan te spoor om liefs geld in die buiteland te belê.

Op Global Research word verklaar die vinnige val van die goudprys is “indrukwekkend” en “wannordelik”. Daar is gesien dat in twee ander gevalle van sulke wanordelike en haastige verhandelinge in die afgelope vyf jaar dit die toneel in gereedheid gebring het vir die Lehman-debakel en die ineenstorting van die Weste se bankstelsel.

In Julie 2008 het goud vinnig 21 persent se waarde verloor. In September 2001 het goud in 'n kort tyd 20 persent aan waarde ingeboet.

Dit was in daardie tyd dat Europa se “finansiële waagstukke ontplof het”. Die klaarblyklike rede was dat die internasionale magselite 'n “globale koördinasie” vir inmenging in banke se sake kon bewerkstellig.

Op die JSE het mynbou-aandele gister skerp gedaal, met Goldfields wat in 'n stadium meer as sewe persent ingeboet het.

Tog wil dit voorkom of daar intussen nog genoeg goeie nuus is om

depressie- en resessiewolwe van die deur te hou, die land se sakeblaaie het immers genoeg om te skryf oor die dalende ru-olieprys en sy positiewe gevolge.

So berig Beeld: Gister se laer oliepryse en ’n stewiger rand kan help om volgende maand groter verligting met petrolpryse te gee as wat vroeër verwag is.

Die petrolprys kan op 1 Mei met 69c per liter daal en die groothandeldieselprys met 48c per liter as die huidige oorverhalingsyfers vir die res van die maand dieselfde bly, blyk uit die jongste syfers van die departement van energie. Die syfers verander daagliks op grond van die rand-dollar-wisselkoers en die heersende markpryse van petrol en diesel by internasionale raffinaderye. Amerikaanse oliepryse was gister vir die eerste keer vanjaar laer as $90 per vat en die Brent-ruolieprys het in Londen in ’n stadium met 2,2% tot $100,83 per vat gedaal – die laagste sedert Julie verlede jaar – in reaksie op die swakker as verwagte ekonomiese groei in China, wat die tweede grootste olieverbruiker ter wêreld is.

China se ekonomie het in die eerste kwartaal met 7,7% gegroei teenoor die 8% wat ekonome volgens ’n Bloomberg-peiling verwag het. Dit volg op nuus einde verlede week oor swakker Amerikaanse kleinhandelverkope. Amerika verbruik 21% van die wêreld se ruolie en China 11%. Brent-ruolie kan in die tweede helfte van vanjaar teen tussen $110 en $115 verhandel namate die verwagte oorskot weggewerk word, sê Morgan Stanley in ’n verslag.

Guy Wolf, hoof van markontleding van Marex Spectron in Londen, sê die laer oliepryse bevestig eenvoudig die beeld van ’n verlangsamende ekonomie in China. Wolf voorspel Brent-pryse kan in dié kwartaal nog tot $85 per vat daal. Die rand het gister teenoor die dollar verswak weens die slegte nuus uit China, maar het die afgelope week of wat beslis bygedra tot ’n verwagte daling in Suid-Afrikaanse brandstofpryse. Die rand het verlede week tot onder R9 teenoor die dollar versterk, maar kon nie tot onder die R8,85-vlak deurbreek nie.

Sien ook:: Paul Roberts, 15 April 2013: The Fed’s Assault On Gold:

“Short Selling” and the Rigging of the Gold Market I was the first to point out that the Federal Reserve was rigging all markets, not merely bond prices and interest rates, and that the Fed is rigging the bullion market in order to protect the US dollar’s exchange value, which is threatened by the Fed’s quantitative easing.

With the Fed adding to the supply of dollars faster than the demand for dollars is increasing, the price or exchange value of the dollar is set up to fall.

A fall in the dollar’s exchange rate would push up import prices and, thereby, domestic inflation, and the Fed would lose control over interest rates. The bond market would collapse and with it the values of debt-related derivatives on the “banks too big too fail” balance sheets. The financial system would be in turmoil, and panic would reign.

Rapidly rising bullion prices were an indication of loss of confidence in the dollar and were signaling a drop in the dollar’s exchange rate.

The Fed used naked shorts in the paper gold market to offset the price effect of a rising demand for bullion possession. Short sales that drive down the price trigger stop-loss orders that automatically lead to individual sales of bullion holdings once their loss limits are reached.

According to Andrew Maguire, on Friday, April 12, the Fed’s agents hit the market with 500 tons of naked shorts. Normally, a short is when an investor thinks the price of a stock or commodity is going to fall. He wants to sell the item in advance of the fall, pocket the money, and then buy the item back after it falls in price, thus making money on the short sale. If he doesn’t have the item, he borrows it from someone who does, putting up cash collateral equal to the current market price. Then he sells the item, waits for it to fall in price, buys it back at the lower price and returns it to the owner who returns his collateral. If enough shorts are sold, the result can be to drive down the market price.

A naked short is when the short seller does not have or borrow the item that he shorts, but sells shorts regardless. In the paper gold market, the participants are betting on gold prices and are content with the monetary payment. Therefore, generally, as participants are not interested in taking delivery of the gold, naked shorts do not need to be covered with the physical metal.

In other words, with naked shorts, no physical metal is actually sold.

People ask me how I know that the Fed is rigging the bullion price and seem surprised that anyone would think the Fed and its bullion bank agents would do such a thing, despite the public knowledge that the Fed is rigging the bond market and the banks with the Fed’s knowledge rigged the Libor rate. The answer is that the circumstantial evidence is powerful.

Consider the 500 tons of paper gold sold on Friday. Begin with the question, how many ounces is 500 tons? There are 2,000 pounds to one ton. 500 tons equal 1,000,000 pounds. There are 16 ounces to one pound, which comes to 16 million ounces of short sales on Friday.

Who has 16 million ounces of gold? At the beginning gold price that day of about $1,550, that comes to $24,800,000,000. Who has that kind of money?

What happens when 500 tons of gold sales are dumped on the market at one time or on one day? Correct, it drives the price down. Investors who want to get out of large positions would spread sales out over time so as not to lower their sales proceeds. The sale took gold down by about $73 per ounce. That means the seller or sellers lost up to

$73 dollars 16 million times, or $1,168,000,000.

Who can afford to lose that kind of money? Only a central bank that can print it.

I believe that the authorities would like to drive the gold price down further and will, if they can, hit the gold market twice more next week and put gold at $1,400 per ounce or lower. The successive declines could perhaps spook individual holders of physical gold and result in actual net sales of physical gold as people reduced their holdings of the metal.

However, bullion dealer Bill Haynes told kingworldnews.com that last Friday bullion purchasers among the public outpaced sellers by 50 to 1, and that the premiums over the spot price on gold and silver coins are the highest in decades. I myself checked with Gainesville Coins and was told that far more buyers than sellers had responded to the price drop.

Unless the authorities have the actual metal with which to back up the short selling, they could be met with demands for deliveries. Unable to cover the shorts with real metal, the scheme would be exposed.

Do the authorities have the metal with which to cover shorts? I do not know. However, knowledgeable dealers are suspicious. Some think that US physical stocks of gold were used up in sales in efforts to disrupt the rise in the gold price from $272 in December 2000 to $1,900 in 2011. They point to Germany’s recent request that the US return the German gold stored in the US, and to the US government’s reply that it would return the gold piecemeal over seven years. If the US has the gold, why not return it to Germany?

The clear implication is that the US cannot deliver the gold.

Andrew Maguire also reports that foreign central banks, especially China, are loading up on physical gold at the low prices made possible by the short selling. If central banks are using their dollar holdings to purchase bullion at bargain prices, the likely results will be pressure on the dollar’s exchange value and a declining market supply of physical bullion. In other words, by trying to protect the dollar from its quantitative easing policy, the Fed might be hastening the dollar’s demise.

Possibly the Fed fears a dollar crisis or derivative blowup is nearing and is trying to reset the gold/dollar price prior to the outbreak of trouble. If ill winds are forecast, the Fed might feel it is better positioned to deal with crisis if the price of bullion is lower and confidence in bullion as a refuge has been shaken.

In addition to short selling that is clearly intended to drive down the gold price, orchestration is also indicated by the advance announcements this month first from brokerage houses and then from Goldman Sachs that hedge funds and institutional investors would be selling their gold positions. The purpose of these announcements was to encourage individual investors to get out of gold before the big boys did. Does anyone believe that hedge funds and Wall Street would announce their sales in advance so the small fry can get out of gold at a higher price than they do?

If these advanced announcements are not orchestration, what are they?

I see the orchestrated effort to suppress the price of gold and silver as a sign that the authorities are frightened that trouble is brewing that they cannot control unless there is strong confidence in the dollar. Otherwise, what is the point of the heavy short selling and orchestrated announcements of gold sales in advance of the sales?

NOTE: Gold weights are based on metric tons and Troy ounces. 500 metric tons of gold would be 16,075,000 troy ounces.

Wat die Boston-bomontploffings betref sal ons land se nuusmedia dalk eers later – of glad nie! - in hul nuusagtergrondartikels by 'n moontlike verband met die tuimeling van aandelewaardes op die beurse internasionaal uitkom.