14th June: Deep Throat, Armageddon and the Rosneft IPO

Finally, Deep Throat had granted me an appointment. DT is one of the most successful traders in the market. He operates from a lair in Canary Wharf and occasionally emerges to communicate, sphinx-like, sound-bites.

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Unlike what the new Fed chairman, baffling Ben Bernanke, offers, each of DT’s words is carefully weighed, and needs to be scribbled down immediately for scrutiny later. DT is the person who told me to buy gold in 2003 when it was languishing around the $350 level.

I discussed his advice with several other senior financiers. They all insisted only crazies invested in gold: it was a fad for fetishists. At the time, central banks were looking to lighten up on their gold holdings.

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