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    Zinc Prices Manipulated Since 2010?

    Written by John Packard


    There are questions about potential manipulations of zinc and zinc trading which may have artificially inflated the metal’s price since 2010. Zinc, which is the metal used to coat galvanized steel as well as Galvalume, Galfan and ZAM, is believed to have been manipulated by The London Metal Exchange, Goldman Sachs,  JP Morgan, Glencore Xstrata and its Pacorini Metals USA LLC unit and Metro International Trade Services, the metal warehousing of Goldman Sachs.

    In a lawsuit filed on Friday in the Southern District of New York, is similar to one filed previously related to the manipulation of the aluminum market in the United States.

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