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BIS continues as facilitator of surreptitious intervention against gold
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2026-02-03 20:07 Section: Daily Dispatches8:13p ET Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Following what seems like the attempt on January 29 by the U.S. government, supported by the Federal Reserve and major investment banks, to enable large short positions in gold futures and especially silver futures to be more easily covered on the New York Commodities Exchange, it should be emphasized again that since 2009 the most contemporaneous proof of surreptitious central bank intervention in the gold market has come from the use of gold swaps arranged by the Bank for International Settlements.
China's gold trading hub rattled as second trading platform faces payment crisis
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2026-02-03 13:57 Section: Daily DispatchesBy He Huifeng
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Chris Brycki: There's no gold bubble -- this is the start of a regime change
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2026-02-03 10:52 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Chris Brycki
Australian Financial Review, Sydney
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Gold briefly touched $7900 an ounce in Australian dollars last week before pulling back to about $6700 on Monday.
Even after the recent volatility, gold is still up about 150 per cent on the same time three years ago.
This isn't a short-term bubble. It is the start of a regime change.
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Gold's bull run seen intact despite steep pullback
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2026-02-02 19:59 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Anjana Anil and Kavya Balaraman
Reuters
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Monday, February 2, 2026
Despite a historic pullback in gold and silver prices, triggered by the sharpest two-session selloff in decades, analysts see the metal's bull run continuing and expect it to notch fresh record highs later this year.
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Money Metals Exchange chief recalls Warsh's admission about U.S. meddling in gold
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2026-02-02 19:34 Section: Daily Dispatches7:33p ET Monday, Febrary 2, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Interviewed by monetary metals advocate Mario Innecco, Money Metals Exchange President Stefan Gleason recalls a conversation he had about gold eight years ago with President Trump's new nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, Kevin Warsh.
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Eldorado Gold to acquire Foran Mining in $2.8 billion deal to raise copper exposure
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2026-02-02 10:47 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Monday, February 2, 2026
Eldorado Gold will acquire Canada's Foran Mining in a deal valuing the copper-focused developer at about C$3.8 billion ($2.79 billion), adding a second near-term growth project and increasing its exposure to copper.
The deal, announced by the companies today, expands Eldorado's production at a time of strong gold prices and rising demand for copper, a key material used in electrification and clean energy.
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Retail demand for gold remains strong in Singapore, Sydney, Thailand
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2026-02-02 10:27 Section: Daily DispatchesSingaporeans Queueing Up to Buy the Dip in Gold Despite Rout
By Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, Sing Yee Ong, and Nasteho Said
Bloomberg News
via The Business Times, Singapore
Monday, February 2, 2026
People were still queueing up to buy gold in Singapore today even as prices plummeted, showing the extraordinary resilience in retail demand for precious metals.
At the headquarters of UOB, Singapore's only bank offering physical gold products to retail investors, clients and walk-in buyers crowded into a dedicated lounge for bullion transactions.
Matthew Piepenburg: Making sense of the nonsense of 'Silver Friday'
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2026-02-02 08:54 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Matthew Piepenburg
Von Greyerz / Gold Switzerland, Zurich
Monday, February 2, 2026
On Friday, January 30, the world learned (or rediscovered) just how grotesquely rigged the paper gold and silver markets truly are.
Despite no change whatsoever in global supply and demand forces, silver went from a $120 near-high on Thursday to a $78 low on Friday, marking this as the largest single-day crash (35%) in the silver market in 44 years.
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Stuart Englert: Nothing has diminished the case for holding monetary metals
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-02-01 15:31 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stuart Englert
Stuart Englert's Substack
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Major price drops in gold and silver, like the massive smash down last Friday, reveal a lot about buyers and holders of the monetary metals.
Newcomers and momentum traders panicked on Friday, fearing the sky had fallen on their jackpot hopes and get-rich dreams. Many were chasing profits as gold and silver prices soared to repeated all-time highs in 2025, followed by the record run-up that ended on the final trading day of January.
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China is on a 'strong currency' mission to make the yuan a global reserve, Xi says
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-02-01 12:09 Section: Daily DispatchesBy He Huifeng
South China Morning News, Hong Kong
Saturday, January 31, 2026
China needs to build a "strong currency" that can become widely used in international trade, investment, and foreign exchange markets, and reach the status of a global reserve.
The mission for the yuan was from excerpts of a speech by President Xi Jinping and published online on Saturday by Qiushi, the ruling Communist Party's leading theoretical journal.
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