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Competition Commission opens investigation into possible collusion in the trading of precious metals
Bern , 09.28.2015 - The Competition Commission (Comco ) examines whether there has been illegal collusion between different banks to the trading of precious metals .

The Competition Commission has opened an investigation against the two Swiss banks UBS and Julius Baer as well as the foreign financial institutions German bank , HSBC , Barclays , Morgan Stanley and Mitsui today . She has reason to believe that among the mentioned banks possibly illegal competition agreements in trade in precious metals were hit . In particular there is the suspicion that the vote of prices , especially of so-called " spreads " (the difference between " bid " - and " Offer " award ) , has come .

As precious metals gold, silver , platinum and palladium are .