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Join GATA at the New Orleans conference and seize the many opportunities there
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-10-20 19:34 Section: Daily Dispatches7:35p ET Monday, October 20, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and your secretary/treasurer will be speaking at the New Orleans Investment Conference, to be held Sunday to Wednesday, November 2-5, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel, and with gold and silver prices strong and rising, it stands to be as promising a financial conference as there has ever been. We'd love to see you there. But please note that the conference admission price will rise by $100 this Thursday. So don't let the price increase get in your way.
Tons of silver from U.S., China ease London squeeze, sources tell Reuters
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-10-20 17:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Polina Revitt
Reuters
Monday, October 20, 2025
LONDON -- Large flows of silver from the U.S. and China to London's spot market in the past week are easing a liquidity squeeze in the world's largest over-the-counter precious metals trading hub, traders and analysts said.
A shortage of available metal in the London market helped drive silver prices to a premium over U.S. Comex futures a week ago, making deliveries by airplane -- usually reserved for much more expensive gold -- profitable for sellers.
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Ed Steer: 'Da boyz' carpet-bomb the precious metals
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-10-19 11:33 Section: Daily Dispatches11:32a ET Sunday, October 19, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The weekend edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest is headlined "'Da Boyz' Carpet-Bomb the Precious Metals" and is posted in the clear at SilverSeek here:
https://silverseek.com/article/da-boyz-carpet-bomb-precious-metals
Gold's historic rally comes with a bonus for emerging markets
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-10-19 10:55 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Selcuk Gokoluk
Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Sunday, October 19, 2025
A relentless surge in the price of gold is delivering windfalls across emerging markets, boosting investor confidence in countries that mine and buy the metal.
In South Africa, home to the world's deepest gold mines, stocks are on track for the best year in two decades, with shares of miners like Sibanye Stillwater, AngloGold Ashanti, and Gold Fields tripling in value.
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Tokens of love, keepsakes, and mementos are melted down in the rush to cash in
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-10-19 09:01 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Dionne Searcey
The New York Times
Sunday, October 19, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/diamond-district-gold-rush.html
The lights weren't even on yet at Bullion Exchanges in Midtown Manhattan, but a customer was already standing outside, holding a crumpled Target bag stuffed with what she hoped were valuable treasures.
Time Magazine: The new gold rush
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-10-18 13:29 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Charlie Campbell
Time Magazine, New York
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
KUMASI, Ghana -- Drive an hour south of Kumasi, Ghana’s bustling second city, and before long the dense jungle gives way to denuded hills peppered with rickety timber frames. On every slope, gumbooted workers shovel the tawny earth down to muddy pools in the furrows, from whence the sludge is pumped to the frame’s zenith to gush down a shallow ramp lined with webbed plastic matting. At the base, more workers sweep the outflow with metal detectors.
Sold out in India, panic in London: How the silver market broke
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-10-18 11:27 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Sybilla Gross, Preeti Soni, Jack Ryan, Yvonne Yue Li, and Jack Farchy
Bloomberg News
via NDTV, Mumbai, India
Saturday, October 18, 2025
For months, Vipin Raina had been bracing for a stampede of buying from Indian customers loading up on silver to honor the Hindu goddess of wealth.
But when it came, he was still blown away. At the start of last week, his company, India's largest precious metals refinery, ran out of silver stock for the first time in its history.
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India central bank's gold reserves top $100 billion on surging prices
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-10-18 11:01 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Nimesh Vora and Rajendra Jadhav
Reuters
Friday, October 17, 2025
MUMBAI -- India's gold reserves crossed the $100 billion mark for the first time, according to the Reserve Bank of India's latest foreign exchange reserves data, buoyed by a global price rally even as the central bank's purchases slowed sharply this year.
India's gold holdings rose by $3.595 billion to $102.365 billion in the week through October 10, RBI data showed today, while overall foreign exchange reserves declined $2.18 billion to $697.784 billion.
Alasdair Macleod: Fear of missing out with gold and silver
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-10-17 16:44 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Friday, October 17, 2025
The question facing dealers in precious metals is whether gold, silver, and platinum group metals have become Giffin goods. If so, further rises will create new demand with sellers retreating.
Michael Lynch: Who thinks retail has pushed gold's market cap up by $12 trillion this year?
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-10-17 13:49 Section: Daily DispatchesThe Run on Physical Gold Accelerates
By Michael Lynch
Econanalytics.substack.com
Friday, October 17, 2025
Yesterday 3,878 new contracts (12 tonnes) were written on the October contract. Since the October contract is in the delivery period, this activity is for physical metal to be delivered by the end of the month.
That one-day buy is just 19 shy of the single-day record, which was set this year during the February contract.
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