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Bond analysts debate if China had role in Treasuries yield swings
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-04-11 11:11 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ruth Carson and Masaki Kondo
Bloomberg News
via the Times of India, Mumbai
Friday, April 11, 2025
After a week of wild swings in the U.S. bond market, China's holdings of Treasuries are increasingly under scrutiny from analysts around the world.
GoldCore's Jan Skoyles: 'This isn't just a rally. This is a rupture'
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2025-04-10 22:12 Section: Daily Dispatches10:11p ET Thursday, April 10, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldCore's Jan Skoyles tonight makes as good a case for protecting yourself with gold as you're likely to see this month, remarking about gold's sharp rise in recent months: "This isn't just a rally. This is a rupture."
Gold isn't so much going up, Skoyles says, as currencies are going down from excessive borrowing and printing and a change in that trend isn't likely.
Skoyles' commentary is 11 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:
Gold's historic race to reclaim its role as the top reserve currency
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-04-09 17:36 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Joshua D. Glawson
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
The Money Metals quarterly bar chart race on the evolution of global international reserves is out. Recently gold overtook the euro, and soon will be challenging the dollar.
In the video by world-renowned gold analyst at Money Metals, Jan Nieuwenhuijs, we explore world reserve currencies from 1950 to 2024.
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Brien Lundin: Gold is telling us that it's not just one thing that's wrong but everything
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-04-09 17:28 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
Metairie, Louisiana
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
It isn't often that you check the markets over your first cup of coffee and find gold up over $100.
But that's precisely what greeted me as I switched on CNBC this morning. (And yes, I am a closed-captioning boomer.)
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Paul Brownstein: Central banks are 'guiding' gold back to the top of the world financial system
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-04-08 16:49 Section: Daily Dispatches4:47p ET Tuesday, April 8, 2024
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Market analyst Paul Brownstein today joins those like the economists Paul Brodsky and Lee Quaintance --
https://www.gata.org/node/11373
-- and London metals trader Andrew Maguire --
https://www.gata.org/node/23725
-- who argue that the gold price isn't being suppressed by central banks anymore as much as "guided" to its return to an important place in the world financial system.
Babylon Bee: Tragic -- Doomsday prepper dies before the world ends
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-04-08 09:22 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom the Babylon Bee, Jupiter, Florida
Saturday, April 4, 2025
AVANT PRAIRIE, Texas -- In an ironic twist of fate, family members of a local doomsday prepper announced that he had died before the world ended.
Hank Klepper, a longtime believer that the United States would someday be invaded by China and everyone would be forced to eat rice, was found dead of a heart attack during a wellness check after he failed to accept a Door Dash delivery.
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China's central bank buys gold for fifth month as prices rally
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-04-07 14:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Yihui Xie
Bloomberg News
Sunday, April 6, 2025
China’s central bank added gold to its reserves for a fifth straight month in March, deepening its bet on the precious metal as a haven asset amid rising global trade and geopolitical turmoil.
Gold held by the People’s Bank of China rose by 0.09 million troy ounces last month, according to data released on Monday. The central bank’s recent run of buying started in November, after a six-month hiatus that followed an 18-month buying spree. ...
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Chinese buyers snapped up copper as prices plunged below $8,500
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-04-07 10:41 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alfred Cang and Julian Luk
Bloomberg News
Monday, April 7, 2025
Chinese copper buyers used today's collapse in prices below $8,500 a ton to significantly increase purchases, traders said, helping to trigger a dramatic rebound even as a rout in other global markets deepened.
Russia's embrace of gold eases loss of reserves frozen by war
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-04-07 10:11 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Bloomberg News
Monday, April 7, 2025
The value of Russia's gold reserves has surged by 72%, or $96 billion, since the beginning of 2022, according to central bank data. The physical amount of gold in the Bank of Russia's coffers hasn’t changed significantly over the last three years, remaining at around 75 million ounces, data shows.
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Next up for markets: A crisis of confidence in the dollar
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-04-05 19:17 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Dhara Ranasinghe, Alun John, and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss
Reuters
Friday, April 4, 2025
LONDON -- In times of market panic investors tend to rush to the safety of the dollar, but when stocks swooned in response to U.S. tariffs this week, they ran away from it. Investors say it's a sign that the greenback's global standing may be eroding.
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