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China's Zijin Gold seeks $3.2 billion in biggest IPO since May
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2025-09-18 20:53 Section: Daily DispatchesYihui Xie and Dave Sebastian
Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Zijin Gold International Co. is seeking to raise HK$25 billion ($3.2 billion) for an initial public offering in Hong Kong that's poised to be the world's biggest deal of its kind since May.
The company, a unit of China's top miner, is offering about 349 million shares at HK$71.59 each, according to a listing document. Trading is set to begin Sept. 29.
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Record gold prices in India fail to unlock scrap supply
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2025-09-18 08:51 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Rajendra Jadhav and Brijesh Patel
Reuters
via Yahoo News, Sunnvale, California
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
NEW DELHI -- Supplies of used gold jewelry and coins, typically released when investors book profits, have been scarce in India, as many expect bullion prices to continue climbing even after reaching new highs almost every week.
This contrasts with March, when spot gold first crossed $3,000 an ounce and retail customers rushed to sell their holdings, triggering a surge in scrap supply.
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Gold gets a little grudging respect from Wall Street Journal
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-09-17 10:42 Section: Daily DispatchesWhy You Should Own (Some) Gold
By Greg Ip
The Wall Street Journal
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Here are some good reasons not to invest in gold. First, it earns no dividends or interest. Second, you can't live in it, like real estate. Third, it has doubled in the last few years, so forget about buying at the bottom.
Nonetheless, this column is going to explain why a prudent, diversified investor should consider owning gold today.
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Foreign investors in U.S. assets rush for protection against swings in dollar
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-09-17 08:22 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ian Smith and Emily Herbert
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Foreign investors in U.S. assets are rushing to hedge their exposure to the dollar, in a sign of increased nervousness about the impact of Donald Trump's agenda on the world’s dominant currency.
Hedged investments into US bonds and equities are outstripping unhedged holdings for the first time in four years, according to Deutsche Bank analysis, after a sharp move since Trump's election last November.
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Inside the century-old building standing above 400,000 gold bars
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-09-16 10:33 Section: Daily DispatchesBut exactly what's happening with those gold bars? The BBC didn't ask
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By Tim Stokes
British Broadcasting Corp., London
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The echoing boom of a slammed door rattles around the walls of the Bank of England's grand columned entrance.
Across the floor and walls sprawl grand mosaics and sculptures depicting lions, piles of gold, thunderbolts, and ancient Roman gods.
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Hong Kong to explore boosting tokenised gold trading in city
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-09-16 10:17 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Cannix Yau
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Authorities are looking into boosting tokenised gold trading in Hong Kong as a step forward to becoming the world's first such settlement centre and shielding the city against U.S.-dollar dominance amid rising geopolitics, the Post has learned.
Clint Siegner: The cost of living is falling fast -- relative to gold, that is
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-09-15 17:23 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Clint Siegner
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Monday, September 15, 2025
Americans are feeling the pinch when it comes to price inflation. Rising prices are a political football with politicians on both sides of the aisle eager to pin blame on the other party.
Both sides are correct. Politicians, along with the central bank they created and continue to endorse, are fully responsible for the affordability crisis and the fading American dream.
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Gold hasn't rallied this much since 1979
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-09-15 17:11 Section: Daily DispatchesBy David Uberti and Ben Eisen
The Wall Street Journal
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Monday, September 15, 2025
Kenneth Pack invested in gold for the first time in April to shield himself from what he saw as the disorder of the new Trump administration. The chaos trade was just heating up.
Thailand considers tax on gold trades to slow rally in baht
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-09-15 07:53 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Suttinee Yuvejwattana
Bloomberg News
via The Business Times, Singapore
Monday, September 15, 2025
BANGKOK -- Thai authorities are reported to be considering a tax on physical gold trading to slow a rally in the nation's currency that has threatened exports and tourism. The baht fell the most in six weeks.
Stuart Englert: Make the dollar great again
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-09-14 14:20 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stuart Englert
StuartEnglert.Substack.com
Friday, September 12, 2025
World history is littered with the corpses of collapsed and obsolete currencies. The U.S. dollar eventually could be among them without a major monetary reset.
From the Roman denarius to the German mark and South Vietnamese dong to the Soviet ruble, hundreds of currencies have been debased, diluted, demonetized, and discarded along the proverbial path of financial destruction.
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