Is somebody manipulating the gold market?

Was gold's mini-crash on Friday a conspiracy by the Fed to frighten investors back into cash? It's certainly a theory. But don't let them scare you, says Bengt Saelensminde. Stick with gold - and if you want to top up, here's what to buy.

Markets aren't designed to make life easy for investors. Take gold. In the last week we've witnessed a brutal correction falling from around $1,800 to $1,550. And though it's recovered to mid sixteen hundreds as I write, this assault may not be over yet.

That's because this collapse in gold suits a great number of parties not least central bankers. Some have even gone as far as to say that the sharp selling in gold over the last week was premeditated.

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Bengt graduated from Reading University in 1994 and followed up with a master's degree in business economics.

 

He started stock market investing at the age of 13, and this eventually led to a job in the City of London in 1995. He started on a bond desk at Cantor Fitzgerald and ended up running a desk at stockbroker's Cazenove.

 

Bengt left the City in 2000 to start up his own import and beauty products business which he still runs today.