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Dave Kranzler: Western central bank fear of gold is in the air
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2017-08-03 19:56 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Dave Kranzler
Investment Research Dynamics, Denver
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Ballooning open interest, heavy fix selling, aggressive post-settlement selling, flash crashes -- this all seems a lot of bother. Perhaps the Other Side is afraid of something.
-– John Brimelow's Gold Jottings.
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Dollar's loss of reserve status will goose monetary metals, Embry tells KWN
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2017-08-02 19:38 Section: Daily Dispatches7:40p ET Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Sprott Asset Management's John Embry tells King World News today that the U.S. dollar may become the primary cause of breakouts in gold and silver as the dollar gradually loses its status as the world reserve currency. Embry's comments are excerpted at KWN here:
Izabella Kaminska: Crypto-currencies are mirroring pre-crash banking systems
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2017-08-02 09:46 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Izabella Kaminska
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
When bitcoin, the crypto currency, first arrived on the scene in 2009 it sold itself on a simple principle.
Ronan Manly: Little transparency in LBMA's London vault report
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2017-08-02 07:45 Section: Daily Dispatches7:45a ET Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
This week's report by the London Bullion Market Association about the gold and silver held in London-area vaults brings little transparency to the issue and even contradicts itself, gold researcher Ronan Manly writes today.
LBMA says London vaults hold 7,500 tonnes of gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2017-07-31 14:38 Section: Daily DispatchesRevealed: Just How Much Gold Is in London's Vaults
By Jon Yeomans
The Telegraph, London
Monday, July 31, 2017
London has long been acknowledged as the biggest gold trading centre in the world, but no one has ever been able to say for sure how much gold is stored in the capital -- until now.
Avery Goodman: Bankers stop the panic in gold, dig in for range-bound play
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2017-07-31 14:23 Section: Daily Dispatches2:22p ET Monday, July 31, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Ronan Manly: West sent at least 4,200 tonnes of gold to Asia in 2013-15
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2017-07-31 14:16 Section: Daily Dispatches2:10p ET Monday, July 31, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold researcher Ronan Manly today documents the flow of 400-ounce London good- delivery bars to Asia via refineries in Switzerland that convert them to kilogram bars. Manly concludes:
Koos Jansen: Estimated Chinese gold reserves surpass 20,000 tonnes
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2017-07-29 20:38 Section: Daily Dispatches8:37p ET Saturday, July 29, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Frozen in time: the miraculous gold rush movies buried under the Yukon ice
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2017-07-29 09:44 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Christina Newland
The Guardian, London
Friday, July 28, 2017
In 1978 in northwest Canada’s Yukon territory, construction on a new recreation centre was under way in a small rural settlement called Dawson City.
'Pretty much ever since Australia sold its gold, it's been on the up'
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2017-07-29 09:35 Section: Daily DispatchesGold's Demise Bar None. ... Well, Four
By Paul Garvey
The Australian, Sydney
Saturday, July 29, 2017
In a vault deep in the basement of the Reserve Bank's Martin Place headquarters in Sydney sits a hoard of gold bars worth about $US500,000 each — all four of them.