Are They Trying To Cut The Strings?
This commentary title came from a 1910 story about one of the causes of the Panic of 1907. It involved A. F. Heinze who noticed there were more shorts than outstanding shares in his copper company. Here are some excerpts from that story, which seems almost like what's happening in the silver market today.On May 1st, 1910, the New York Times ran this story:
I also liked the way that journalist wrote:
Theodore (Ted) Butler and Jame R. Cook have been writing for quite some time about how "outrageously large" the silver shorts position has become. From his latest essay, published 3/11/08:
If we do get a sharp sell-off, it will only take place because the big shorts are finally able to rig it. It will not come as a result of any free market cause. This should be obvious to any alert market observer. The regulators at the NYMEX and the CFTC should be ashamed of themselves for allowing such market manipulation to exist.As shown in the following recent articles, the CME Group is buying out NYMEX (COMEX) and then selling gold/silver markets to the New York Stock Exchange. So is this how they're going to resolve this "outrageously large silver short position?" Is this how they're going to "cut the strings" and provide some way for the precious-metal shorts to escape?Most importantly, the potential bullish impact of the resolution of the outrageously large silver short position remains intact. If anything, the short position has become even more extreme, given the growing concentrated nature of this short position. Therefore, in spite of the open losses the shorts are experiencing and the great profits accruing to silver investors, the price manipulation is still in place. It is the unusual concentrated aspect to the COMEX silver short position that assures, in my opinion, that it must still be resolved, and that the resolution will prove bullish beyond expectations.
On 3/17/08, the CME Group announced that it was going to buy NYMEX.
On Monday, CME Group agreed to buy Nymex Holdings for $9.5 billion in cash and stock. Surprisingly, the acquired company didn't get a boost from the deal and instead fell 10.5% to $85.33 cents in afternoon trading. CME fell 7.0%, or $33.95, to $452.97.The Financial Times of London had this to say:
"Nymex has capitulated," said one former CME senior official. "They're selling control over their destiny."But then this story came out:
NYSE Euronext to Buy Gold, Silver Complex from CME
"The addition of CME Group's precious metals market gives NYSE Euronext a point of entry in the U.S. futures business," Duncan Niederauer, NYSE Euronext's chief executive, said in a statement.You know, all of this wouldn't matter if the leading Major Holder of NYSE wasn't Atticus Capital LLC, which involves Nathaniel Philip Rothschild.A NYSE Euronext spokesman would not comment on whether the company would further expand into commodity trading.
NYSE Euronext said that trading of full and e-mini gold and silver futures and options on futures contracts will begin later this year on LIFFE CONNECT, the company's derivatives trading system, pending regulatory approvals.
Maybe it wouldn't matter if General Atlantic LLC didn't involve the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Steven Denning:
Steven A. Denning is the Chairman of General Atlantic LLC. He joined the firm in 1980 and has built the organization into one of the leading global equity investment firms focused exclusively on investing in growth companies. He is actively involved in a number of private and public information technology companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including Eclipsys Corporation (NASDAQ: ECLP), Hewitt Associates (NYSE: HEW), IHS, Inc. (NYSE: IHS), and Genpact (NYSE: G). He is also a director of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).Maybe this is why: Sometimes The Dragon Wins
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Therefore, the TOP 10 Major Holders control 29.83% of CME Group.
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Vanguard manages four funds that control 2.04%.
Therefore, the TOP 10 Major Holders control 32.00% of NYMEX.
General Atlantic controls 14.78%.
NOTE: COMEX is a subsidiary of NYMEX.
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