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U.S. regulators started Scotiabank probe before metals desk closure, filings show

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Hobson
Reuters
Friday, May 8, 2020

LONDON -- U.S. regulators were investigating Bank of Nova Scotia's metals trading activities several months before it told staff it would wind down the unit, according to its most recent earnings report.

Dave Kranzler: A hopelessly corrupt financial system plus historic bubbles -- Got gold?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dave Kranzler
Investment Research Dynamics, Denver
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Federal Reserve has re-inflated the biggest stock and asset bubble in history after the previously biggest stock bubble was punctured in March.

Today the Fed will begin buying junk bond/leveraged loan exchange-traded funds using Blackrock as its front. There ars two obvious problems with this.

Once taboo, investors begin to imagine negative U.S. rates

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Tom Westbrook
Reuters
Tuesday, May 12

Negative interest rates in the United States were once unimaginable. The coronavirus has changed that.

While the Federal Reserve has all but ruled it out, the sweeping economic and financial-markets impact of the pandemic has forced investors to give serious thought to the implications of such a drastic policy shift.

Trump hails 'gift' of negative rates that Fed officials disdain

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Josh Wingrove
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. should receive the "gift" of negative interest rates, after three Federal Reserve officials signaled the central bank is cool to the idea.

Trump has long expressed his desire for the U.S. to pay negative interest on its debt.

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Gold miners' profits 'set to explode' but companies persist with no-premium mergers

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gabriel Friedman
National Post, Toronto
Monday, May 11, 2020

In a reminder that some market forces still exert more power than the economic fallout from COVID-19, Vancouver-based SSR Mining Inc. today announced a no-premium, all-stock "merger of equals" with Denver-based Alacer Gold Corp. that was months in the making and would create a US$4 billion company.

Ed Steer's 'Gold & Silver Digest' for Saturday posted at GoldSeek

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:53p ET Monday, May 11, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Saturday edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's "Gold & Silver Digest" letter, headlined "A Very Constructive COT Report," has been posted in the clear at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1589215451.php

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org


Jim Sinclair and John Kim: Crippling the world economy saved the financial system

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:27p ET Monday, May 11, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Two of the gold sector's top minds, mining entrepreneur Jim Sinclair and financial analyst John Kim, today make similarly unorthodox observations about the financial markets and the worldwide virus epidemic.

Pam and Russ Martens: Meet the Fed's global Plunge Protection Team

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Sunday, May 10, 2020

USA Gold's 'News & Views' letter: Inflation or deflation? Gold doesn't care

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:22p ET Sunday, May 10, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

"Gold In the Year of the Pandemic" is the headline on the May issue of USA Gold's "News & Views" letter, which summarizes the high expectations for gold expressed by some "smart money" people. But maybe the letter's smartest observation is simply: "Inflation or deflation? Gold doesn't care."

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