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Miles Franklin's Andy Schectman explains 'price as misdirection' in gold and silver

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11:27p ET Friday, October 28, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This week's "Live from the Vault" from program Kinesis Money, a conversation between London metals trader Andrew Maguire and coin and bullion dealer Andrew Schectman of the Miles Franklin distributorship, examines the incongruity of falling gold and silver futures prices amid overwhelming demand for real metal.

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Ted Butler: Silver's coming move to $50, and beyond

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By Ted Butler
SilverSeek.com
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Twice over the past 42 years, the price of silver has risen to $50; once back in 1980 and again 11 years ago, in 2011.  Obviously, no one would argue that something that occurred twice already is not capable of happening again. On both prior silver price peaks, prices then fell sharply and quickly. But the next coming move to $50 in silver is much more likely to not only exceed the past two highs, but also remain far higher for far longer than previously.

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Modi plan to unlock India's gold gets new focus amid near-record trade gap

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By Adrija Chatterjee, Swansy Afonso, and Shruti Srivastava
Bloomberg News
Thursday, October 27, 2022

India's wide trade deficit is highlighting a curious government plan to rein in the gap: Getting people to hand over their private stashes of gold jewelry.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government have been trying to convince gold-obsessed citizens -- who collectively own the biggest private holding of bullion in the world -- to deposit their treasures with banks and earn interest.

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Russian banks run low on gold amid surging demand

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From Russia Today, Moscow
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Banks in Russia are facing a shortage of gold bars after demand for the precious metal increased sharply, the Vedomosti newspaper reported, citing experts.

The executive director of precious metals operations at Uralsib Bank, Andrey Vasiliev, told the media outlet that supply disruptions arose due to the limited production capacity of refineries and growing demand for gold bars from citizens.

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Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: All eyes on the dollar index

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8:56p ET Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Craig Hemke of the TF Metals Report, writing tonight at Sprott Money,argues that the U.S. dollar index will anticipate the ending of the Federal Reserve's interest-rate-raising cycle, breaking below its moving averages. Hemke's writes that such a point has not yet arrived but it will. His analysis is headlined "All Eyes on the Dollar Index" and it's posted at Sprott Money here:

New gold exchange may transform India from price taker to price maker

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BSE Launches Electronic Gold Receipts

From the Press Trust of India
via The Times of India, Mumbai
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

NEW DELHI -- Leading stock exchange BSE has launched its electronic gold receipts on its platform, a move that will help in efficient and transparent price discovery of the yellow metal.

The exchange has introduced two new products of .995 and .999 purity during the Muhurat trading on Diwali and trading will be in multiples of 1 gram and deliveries in multiples of 10 grams and 100 grams, the exchange said in a statement.

U.S. mining sanctions take aim at Nicaragua's gold

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By Tyler Clifford and Susan Heavey
Reuters
Monday, October 24, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration today ratcheted up economic pressure on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government through a series of steps targeting the country's mining, gold, and other sectors.

Ronan Manly: LBMA and Comex running out of silver fast

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7:50p ET Monday, October 24, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star monetary metals analyst Ronan Manly writes today that silver inventories in the London Bullion Market Association system are at a record low, having fallen for 10 months straight, and that silver inventories at the New York Commodities Exchange are at a five-year low.

His analysis is headlined "Comex Deliverable Silver Far Less than Imagined as 50% of 'Eligible' Is Not Available" and it's posted at Bullion Star here:

With Shanghai stockpile gone, copper market 'like a room full of gunpowder'

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China's Billion-Dollar Cash-for-Copper Trade Grinds to a Halt

Alfred Cang and Jack Farchy
Bloomberg News 
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Sunday, October 23, 2022

For the past 15 years the center of gravity of the global copper market has been a row of warehouses in Shanghai's free-trade zone where the Yangtze River meets the Pacific.

Egypt's new currency gauge might be based on gold, central bank boss says

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Egypt to develop New Currency Indicator to Wean People Off U.S. Dollar

By Patrick Werr, Mahmoud Murad, and Nayera Abdallah
Reuters
Sunday, October 23, 1011

CAIRO -- Egypt will develop a new currency indicator partly to wean people off the idea that the Egyptian pound should be pegged to the U.S. dollar, the new central bank governor said today.

Hassan Abdalla, appointed in August, told an economic conference that the central bank was also working to introduce currency hedging and had already finished futures contracts as it revamps its currency trading system.

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