Lawrence Williams: Gold Late-Market Slam Downs are Obvious Manipulation... But By Whom?

``Why do we think these are strange dealings? They revolve around the unloading of a lot of gold contracts in a very short space of time out of hours at a time of day that there is normally little or no activity in the markets, and no news story being released at the time which might have precipitated such a dramatic shift. This has happened for both of the past two days, and we can probably expect more of the same. This is manipulation pure and simple.''