RE:Today was an obvious hit job.Yes a hit job with suspects being:
1)Wall street and perhaps that US stabilization fund, they are lowering the gold stocks for manipulation like the Hunt brothers in the 70s with silver metal., They wont control gold but owning the producers can do wonders.
2)Bitcoin whales who have laready bought out CNBC, using their mafia money to sell to each other on the way down shorting the miners and then slowly build it up. It only would cost about 500 million a day to cover most north american public gold companies - and control prices. That is cheap.
3)The chinese who are shorting and already inviting their people to buy the gold stocks at the lower prices. they dont want just gold purchases so that is the new tax to discourage gold purchases but not the stocks, This is how they will eventually control the producrs of gold and their african gold producing friends or 'colonies'.
Choose one but the maniulation is evident - wonder why the SEC are not involvrd.