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Intercontinental Exchange admits metals market vulnerability to rigging

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'Flash Boys'-Style Speed Bump Planned for Futures Markets

By Nick Baker
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s futures market wants to join the battle against the fastest traders.

USAGold's News & Views finds expectations of gold's breakout year

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8:44p ET Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

USAGold's "News & Views" newsletter for February asks whether 2019 will be gold's "breakout" year and finds a fair number of analysts who indeed expect that it will be. The newsletter is posted in the clear at USAGold here:

http://www.usagold.com/cpmforum/nv1002-feb19/

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Ted Butler is confident that Justice Dept. will stop JPM's silver rigging

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8:38p ET Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Italy won't sell even 'a gram' of gold reserves, leading legislator says

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Besides, first they'd have to find it.

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By Giselda Vagnoni
Reuters
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

ROME -- The Italian government has no intention of selling the Bank of Italy's gold reserves to plug budget holes, a prominent lawmaker of the ruling League party said today.

Indian brides still want gold, not rupees

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By Krishna N. Das
Reuters
Thursday, February 7, 2019

NEW DELHI, India -- An Indian state will give gold worth about $530 to every bride from a poor family, the latest budget giveaway ahead of a general election that must be held by May.

Ronan Manly: Italy's gold enters the political fray, but who really owns it?

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9:15p ET Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Venezuela hopes to create non-dollar trading bloc

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By Nidhi Verma and Promit Mukherjee
Reuters
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

NEW DELHI, India -- Venezuela hopes to create a trade bloc consisting of China, India, and Russia to help the South American country settle oil payments in currencies other than the dollar, its oil minister said today.

Maduro ally Erdogan says Turkish town will process Venezuelan gold

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From Ahval News, Gibraltar
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will make a small Anatolian town the centre for processing Venezuelan gold in what appeared to be a further challenge to U.S. policy toward the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro calls for return of Venezuela's gold from Bank of England

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From Agence France-Presse, Paris
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called on Britain to return "more than 80 tons of gold" reserves deposited in London instead of sending humanitarian aid, in an interview with the BBC.

Ask your mining companies what they're doing about price suppression

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:27p ET Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA's old friend B.L. has forwarded the text of an excellent letter he has e-mailed to a monetary metals mining company in which he long has been invested, asking whether the company will ever respond to the growing number of disclosures of manipulation of the gold and silver markets.

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