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Philippines central bank adopts policy of active gold trading

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ditas B Lopez
Bloomberg News
Saturday, September 5, 2020

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-05/philippines-central-b...

The Philippine central bank is shifting to active gold trading as the monetary authority seeks to better manage the country's international reserves, Governor Benjamin Diokno said on today.

Record gold prices create insurance headache for vault keepers

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Eddie Spence
Bloomberg News
Saturday, September 5, 2020

Surging demand for gold means business is booming at the companies that store and protect the world's bullion. But record prices come with a catch: All those piles of yellow bars are suddenly much trickier to insure.

USAGold's September 'News & Views' letter is available

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:27a ET Friday, September 4, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

USAGold's September "News & Views" letter, published by Centennial Precious Metals in Colorado, covers the superiority of long-term investment, the new openness to gold by Warren Buffett and pension funds, gold's excellent performance against major currencies, and silver's recent excellent performance against everything.

Alasdair Macleod: Central banks are running out of road with inflation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
Thursday, September 3, 2020

If you think that price inflation runs at about 1.6 percent you have fallen for the Consumer Price Index myth of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Ronan Manly: New 'transparency' at Bank of England and LBMA likely means to help Comex obfuscate

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:42p ET Thursday, September 3, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

By starting to report their gold and silver vault holdings on a one-month instead of a three-month basis, Bullion Star gold researcher Ronan Manly writes today, the Bank of England and London Bullion Market Association are probably not doing any favors for the "transparency" they tout.

Jan Nieuwenhuijus: Gold is the most stable currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:10p ET Thursday, September 3, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Voima Gold researcher Jan Nieuwenhuijs today disputes a recent video produced by metals consultancy CPM Group that asserts that gold's value declines over time just as the value of government currencies does.

FT's John Plender: Gold over bonds is a 'no-brainer'

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:43a ET Thursday, September 3, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If they dig deep enough into it today, readers of the Financial Times will find support for gold at the bottom of senior editor John Plender's column, headlined "Fed's Inflation Shift Is Another Blow to 'Safe' Assets":

https://www.ft.com/content/f7848873-ba42-4166-b063-fe6aa51e1080

The Australian gold rush that never ended

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Geoff Hiscock
Nikkei Asian Review, Tokyo
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Pam and Russ Martens: Wall Street's felon banks open their own stock exchange this month

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Members Exchange, a new stock exchange, has announced that it will begin live trading of select stocks on September 21 with a full phase-in on September 29.

Bank of England official says gold price 'tells you precisely nothing'

Section: Daily Dispatches

But doesn't it at least reveal that gold is more in demand than the British pound or Deutschebank shares?

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Gold Is a Terrible Predictor of Inflation, Bank of England's Vlieghe Says

By Lucy Meakin
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Bank of England policy maker Gertjan Vlieghe warned that it's a "terrible idea" to look at gold prices as a predictor of inflation.

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