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Forced into digital transactions, Indians resume buying gold anyway

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Gold Jewellery Sales Pick Up Slowly After Falling 80%

By Sutanuka Ghosal
The Times of India, Mumbai
Monday, December 12, 2016

KOLKATA, India -- Gold sales have picked up by 40-50 percent this month as consumers are getting used to digital transactions to purchase the metal.

Inflation-hit Venezuela to pull largest bill from circulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Girish Gupta
Reuters
Sunday, December 11, 2016

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Mired in an economic crisis and facing the world's highest inflation, Venezuela will pull its largest bill, worth two U.S. cents on the black market, from circulation this week ahead of introducing new higher-value notes, President Nicolas Maduro said today.

Silver price charts annotated with messages between market-rigging traders

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:13p ET Saturday, December 10, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Nick Laird of Gold Charts R Us has built charts of silver prices that link price movements with the messages between traders disclosed this week in the anti-trust lawsuit against the investment banks accused of rigging the market. The annotated charts can be viewed at Laird's internet site here:

Mike Kosares: Trump, Reagan economies at polar opposites

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:20p ET Saturday, December 10, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Deutsche Bank's 'smoking gun' evidence cited in bid to expand U.S. silver rigging case

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By Nate Raymond
Reuters
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Lawyers for investors accusing several major banks of conspiring to rig silver prices are seeking to add five new defendants to the case, based what they call "smoking gun" evidence they obtained from Deutsche Bank following a settlement.

Trump to name Goldman Sachs veteran to head National Economic Council

Section: Daily Dispatches

At least Hillary might have appointed someone from JPMorganChase.

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By Renae Merle, Ylan Q. Mui, and Philip Rucker
Washington Post
Friday, December 9, 2016

South Africa's Sibanye Gold to buy Stillwater Mining for $2.2 billion in latest platinum push

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By Alexandra Wexler
The Wall Street Journal
Friday, December 9, 2016

JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's Sibanye Gold Ltd. said today it plans to buy U.S. palladium and platinum miner Stillwater Mining Co. for $2.2 billion, the company's first foray outside of southern Africa and the latest bold move to diversify beyond gold mining.

Alasdair Macleod: Why Europe must end in tears

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6:55p ET Thursday, December 8, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod today criticizes the Bank of England for blaming its policy failures on everything but their true causes: the bank's own constant interventions in and interference with markets. Macleod's commentary is headlined "Why Europe Must End in Tears" and it's posted at GoldMoney here:

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