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To: Tommaso who wrote (101874)	7/13/2013 4:29:42 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 219496

Bubbling again in New York back to 2007 prices The median price of condominiums, co-ops and one- to three-family homes that sold in the second quarter was $550,000, up 15 percent from a year earlier and the highest in more than a decade of record keeping, New York-based appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate said in a report today. The inventory of listings fell 19 percent to 4,704, the lowest for a second quarter since Miller Samuel began tracking the data in 2008, said Jonathan Miller, the firm’s president. bloomberg.com

To: Tommaso who wrote (101874)	7/13/2013 9:39:47 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219496

The thinking (not originally mine) is that the big US banks are complicit in the ongoing manipulation and that their future thinking (informed or even directed by the Fed) can be teased out of the Bank Position Reports (BPRs) filed with the CFTC. Although they deal with both futures and options, my guess is that the futures are significantly more informative than the options. Haven't followed the Bank Position Reports until recently. The banks turned net long in June, signaling a rally. Before then, they were short. In fact, they were short all year until June. In January and February, they were massively short, signaling a horrible Au market which, of course, is precisely what happened. The big banks are certainly a bunch of prescient geniuses, aren't they? Surf the manipulation, embrace it. Certainly a waste of time to bitch 'n moan about it. It would be interesting to chart the BPRs against POG for the last year or so.