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Ted Butler: JPMorgan batters the gold price again
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2023-04-04 18:33 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ted Butler
SilverSeek.com
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
A major development last week was the large amount of gold issued by JPMorgan over the first two days of the Comex April contract. Total gold deliveries by JPMorgan of 14,326 contracts, including 10,682 contracts (1.07 million ounces) by JPM from its proprietary house account were the largest by JPM in history.
Traders bet Fed won't raise rates further as job market cools
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2023-04-04 14:01 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Lindsay Dunsmuir and Ann Saphir
Reuters
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
A key gauge of labor market tightness that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has cited throughout the central bank's aggressive interest-rate hike campaign dropped to its lowest level since late 2021, a sign that a long-awaited cooling is underway and easing concerns borrowing costs will have to move much higher to bring down inflation.
USA Gold's top 10 gold and financial market reports and commentaries for March
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2023-04-03 22:22 Section: Daily Dispatches10:22p ET Monday, April 3, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
USA Gold's top 10 gold and financial market reports and commentaries of March, with USA Gold's own brief commentaries appended, are posted here:
https://mailchi.mp/05429cd33690/top-ten-articles-for-march-news-views?e=535151a913
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
China's yuan replaces dollar as most traded currency in Russia
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2023-04-03 12:13 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Bloomberg News
Monday, April 3 2023
China's yuan has replaced the U.S. dollar as the most traded currency in Russia, a year after the invasion of Ukraine led to a slew of Western sanctions against Moscow.
The yuan surpassed the dollar in monthly trading volume in February for the first time, and the difference became more pronounced in March, according to data compiled by Bloomberg based on daily transaction reports from the Moscow Exchange.
Before the invasion, the yuan's trading volume on the Russian market was negligible. ...
JPMorganChase's domination of monetary metals derivatives isn't so puzzling
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2023-04-03 11:33 Section: Daily Dispatches11:36a ET Monday, April 3, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Today at Wall Street on Parade, Pam and Russ Martens note that JPMorganChase Bank holds 53% of all the monetary metals derivatives contracts in the U.S. banking system, through the bank and some of its traders have been criminally charged with rigging the monetary metals markets.
The Martenses write: "It is hard to understate the regulatory failure of allowing JPMorgan Chase to continue to have this outsized presence in the precious metals derivatives market."
How Zimbabwe uses gold smuggling to evade Western sanctions
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2023-04-02 12:59 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Al Jazeera
Doha, Qatar
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Zimbabwe's government is using smuggling gangs to sell gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars, skirting some of the consequences of tough Western sanctions imposed on the country over human rights abuses, Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit can reveal.
Papua New Guinea and Barrick agree to reopen major gold mine
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2023-04-02 12:45 Section: Daily DispatchesBarrick Finalizes Deal to Restart Papua New Guinea Gold Mine
By Jacob Lorinc
Bloomberg News
Friday, March 31, 2023
Barrick Gold Corp. is set to restart operations at one of its biggest gold mines after inking a deal with Papua New Guinea's government over its shuttered mine in the southwest Pacific island nation.
The world's second-largest gold producer signed an agreement Thursday with the government and its Papua New Guinea partners to resume operations at Porgera mine, which had been suspended since 2020.
Depositors withdraw another $126 billion from U.S. banks
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2023-04-02 12:33 Section: Daily DispatchesBy David Hollerith
Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Friday, March 31, 2023
Depositors drained another $126 billion from U.S. banks during the week ending March 22, according to new Federal Reserve data. This time the outflow came from the nations largest institutions.
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$620 billion of unrealized losses are on U.S. banks' books
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2023-04-02 12:26 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Noah Buhayar, Jennifer Surane, Andre Tartar, Raeedah Wahid, Dean Halford, and Hayley Warren
Bloomberg News
Friday, March 31, 2023
The investment losses that helped take down Silicon Valley Bank are a problem, to one degree or another, across the U.S. financial system. In total the industry ended last year with $620 billion of unrealized losses on its books from investments in low-yielding bonds.
For most banks, the issue is manageable.
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Big money soon may rush into little gold and silver markets, GATA chairman says
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2023-03-31 19:54 Section: Daily Dispatches7:54p ET Friday, March 31, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldSeek Radio's Chris Waltzek today talks with GATA Chairman Bill Murphy about increasing signs of strength in gold and silver prices. Murphy says as much as $300 trillion in investment money soon may be pursuing monetary metals now valued at only $10 trillion. The interview is 12 minutes long and can be heard at GoldSeek here:
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