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Suspicion of impairment of German gold sneaks into Washington Post

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Germany to Bring Home Some of its Gold Reserves

By Michael Birnbaum
Washington Post
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/germany-to-bring-home-some-of-its-go...

Sinclair, Barron, and Leeb on the Bundesbank's strange gold move

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:50p ET January 16, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Comment is flowing in on the Bundesbank's plan to repatriate all of a fifth of its gold held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York over the next seven years.

Jim Sinclair argues that the move is retaliation by the euro bloc for U.S. attacks on gold that hamper the euro bloc's strategy for strengthening its new currency:

Turd Ferguson: German gold hijinx

Section: Daily Dispatches

1p ET Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

To recover just a small part of Germany's gold, Bundesbank will need 7 years

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9:14a ET Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Deutsche Bundesbank's plan announced today to repatriate some of Germany's gold reserves from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is so incomplete and slow as to increase, not diminish, doubt that all the gold is really available.

Monetary metals recovered from paper slam in just a week, Turk notes

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:15p ET Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MarketWatch permits questions about official gold reserves

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Germany Wants Its Gold Back

By Barbara Kollmeyer and Sarah Turner
MarketWatch
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-futures-tick-higher-in-asia-tradin...

Goodbye, Big Apple. Adieu, Paris. It seems the Bundesbank could finally be ready to bow to some longstanding public pressure and bring its foreign gold reserves home.

Handelsblatt report translated; and a statement by German gold repatriation advocates

Section: Daily Dispatches

9a ET Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Below are, first, an English translation by the German financial journalist Lars Schall of yesterday's report in Handelsblatt about the Bundesbank's plan to retrieve German gold vaulted abroad, and, second, a response by Peter Boehringer, founder of the German "Repatriate Our Gold" campaign.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Bundesbank reported ready to retrieve Germany's gold from New York and Paris

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:14p ET Monday, January 14, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The German business newspaper Handelsblatt, based in Dusseldorf, reports exclusively tonight that the Bundesbank will announce Wednesday a plan to retrieve Germany's national gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Banque de France in Paris:

Goldcore raises clamor about Bank of England's custody of Ireland's gold

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UK Bank Sits on a Pot of E235 Million in Irish Gold

By RuaidhrI Giblin
The Sunday Independent, Dublin
Sunday, January 13, 2013

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/uk-bank-sits-on-a-pot-of-235m-in...

Bankrupt Ireland owns 6 tonnes of gold, the bulk of which is held at the Bank of England, it has been revealed.

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