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Swiss franc's surge sparks bets for return to negative interest rates

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Emily Herbert, Ian Smith, and Mercedes Ruehl
Financial Times, London
Sunday, April 27, 2025

The Swiss franc has soared to a decade high against the dollar as investors rush for shelter from the global trade turmoil, sparking bets that the country's central bank will have to lower interest rates to zero or below to curb the currency's rise.

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Zimbabwe restarts minting gold coins as metal's price soars

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ray Ndlovu
Bloomberg News
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Zimbabwe's central bank is again issuing gold coins it scrapped 10 months ago, a step it took to ramp up the bullion stockpile used to back up the local currency, the ZiG.

Minting of the "Mosi-Oa-Tunya" 22-carat coins, named after the iconic Victoria Falls, was scrapped in July, central bank Governor John Mushayavanhu told Bloomberg in an interview at the time.

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Help GATA and get a commemorative silver round

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:11a ET Sunday, April 27, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

We are so close to victory now. Gold is all over mainstream financial news organizations now even as they strive not to expose the real reasons for the monetary metal's spectacular rise: the collapse of the derivatives-based gold price suppression system.

Adam Sharp: The art of currency war

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Adam Sharp
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Friday, April 25, 2025

The U.S. dollar remains the king of currencies. For now, at least.

The greenback's share of global foreign exchange reserves sits around 58%. However, back in 2000 the dollar was even more dominant with a 72% market share.

Meanwhile China's yuan only makes up about 2.2% of global forex reserves, but that's up from 1.1% in 2016. The currency's share of global payments is higher at around 4.7%.

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Former Fed governor Warsh blasts U.S. central bank for leaving its lane

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Francesco Canepa
Reuters
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Friday, April 25, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh, with whom President Donald Trump is reported to have discussed firing U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell and installing him in his place, today unleashed a barrage of criticism of the Fed and argued for fundamental changes to how it operates.

Hackers manipulate markets in illicit trading spree netting $700 million

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Aya Wagatsuma, Ryo Horiuchi, and Takashi Nakamichi
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Criminals are hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world. The wave of fraudulent trading has reached 100 billion yen ($710 million) since it started in February and shows no signs of cresting.

Silver supply deficit will break price suppression, First Majestic's Keith Neumeyer says

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:43p ET Friday, April 25, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold isn't the only monetary metals market heavily manipulated by bullion banks, First Majestic Silver CEO Keith Neumeyer tells Mike Maharrey on Money Metals Exchange's weekly market review. Neumeyer says about 300 ounces of "paper" silver -- imaginary silver -- trade for every ounce of real metal.

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Jesse Colombo: Gold isn't going up; your regular money is just losing value

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jesse Colombo
The Bubble Bubble Report, Substack
Friday, April 24, 2025

Whenever gold rises and I get excited as a gold investor, I'm often met with the familiar refrain: "Gold isn't really going up -- the dollar is just losing value." 

I used to brush that off as a cliche or a semantics game, and honestly, it annoyed me. But eventually I decided to dig deeper. 

I started analyzing the data visually -- my favorite way to learn -- and that's when it really clicked: They were right.

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Kenya's central bank considers buying gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jennifer Zabasajja and David Herbling
Bloomberg News
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Kenya is considering adding gold to its reserves to diversify its foreign exchange holdings beyond the U.S. dollar and other currencies, according to the country's central bank governor.

Jim Rickards: Gold is the everything hedge

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James G. Rickards
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Thursday, April 24, 2025

It's a subject we analyze continually, and we have recommended gold as part of a sound investment portfolio for years. Today the dollar price of gold is hovering near all-time highs over $3,300 per ounce.

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