Daily Dispatches

Barrick Gold founder and philanthropist Peter Munk dies at 90

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2018-03-28 20:37 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ian Bickis
Canadian Press
via The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Barrick Gold Corp.'s visionary founder Peter Munk, a man of lofty global ambitions who fulfilled them like few others, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

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Koos Jansen: U.S. gold reserve audits lack credibility

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2018-03-28 20:25 Section: Daily Dispatches

8:30a SST Thursday, March 29, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star's Koos Jansen today details serious problems with what the U.S. government purports to be audits of the U.S. gold reserve. His analysis is headlined "Audits of U.S. Monetary Gold Severely Lack Credibility" and it's posted at Bullion Star here:

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Ronan Manly: Central banks care about the gold price enough to manipulate it

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2018-03-28 11:33 Section: Daily Dispatches

11:35p SSR Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Mike Kosares: Petro-yuan could displace petro-dollar

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-03-27 21:18 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:20a SST Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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As trade war heats up, biggest currency whales make their move

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-03-27 20:58 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Katherine Greifeld
Bloomberg News
Monday, March 26, 2018

For the first time in a decade, the world's central banks are looking beyond the dollar to build their currency reserves.

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No, GATA never took Russian central banker or Greenspan out of context

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-03-27 10:32 Section: Daily Dispatches

10:39p Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In commentary posted today at GoldSeek, headlined "GATA Is at It Again" --

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1522155660.php

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Clint Siegner: Mine production may decline but there's still plenty of 'paper gold'

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-03-27 00:56 Section: Daily Dispatches

12:56p SST Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Annual world gold production seems to be about to decline, Clint Siegner of Money Metals Exchange writes this week, but there's never any shortage of "paper gold," claims to gold that may not exist.

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China's oil futures launch may threaten dollar's primacy, UBS analyst says

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-03-26 21:20 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Kate Duguid
Reuters
Monday, March 26, 2018

NEW YORK -- China's launch of its crude futures exchange today will improve the clout of the yuan in financial markets and could threaten the international primacy of the dollar, argues a new report by Hayden Briscoe, APAC head of fixed income at UBS Asset Management.