# Prof. Rosa Abrantes-Metz on London's gold rate fix

1 Faculty News May 23, 2014>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/39ddc59c-e287-11e3-a829-00144feabdc0.html#axzz32ZPYSyEg) -- "'The fix is easy to manipulate and it is not a good benchmark,' said [Rosa Abrantes-Metz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Romy), adjunct professor at New York University Stern School of Business and author of a soon-to-be-published research paper on the fix. 'The news shows that illegal behaviour did occur and there will be concerns about what else was happening.'"

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