Daily Dispatches

10:05a ET Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The English-language edition of the Chinese government's newspaper Global Times published on Sunday a pretty dispassionate commentary attributed to the Beijing-based public policy research consultancy Anbound (http://www.anbound.com/AboutUS.php) advocating the world's return to a gold standard for currencies.

By Jonathan Garber
Fox Business, New York
Monday, August 26, 2019

Gold has soared in recent weeks, and it showing no signs of letting up any time soon.

The precious metal was trading near $1,420 an ounce on Aug. 1 but had surged by more than 8% to nearly $1,540 by Monday as the U.S. and China swapped blows in a trade war that seems to heat up, cool down, and heat up again each day.

By Tom Daly and Shivani Singh
Reuters
Monday, August 26, 2019

BEIJING -- Zhaojin Mining, one of China's biggest gold miners, aims to double production of the precious metal as early as 2024 on the back of overseas acquisitions and may look for deals below $500 million, the head of its international arm says.

9:31a ET Sunday, August 25, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This week brought another public conversion to what used to be the tinfoil-hat school of looking at the monetary metals markets -- Agora Financial editor Dave Gonigam.