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Lovers and central banks walk away from gold's scorching rally
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2016-11-08 09:46 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Eddie Van Der Walt
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Soaring gold prices have pushed out some of the biggest buyers.
Jewelry demand plunged 21 percent in the third quarter, taking the year-to-date total to the lowest level since 2009, according to a report from the World Gold Council. Central banks bought almost half as much gold as a year earlier.
Islamic finance nears final standard for gold-based products
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2016-11-08 00:17 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Bernardo Vizcaino
Reuters
Tuesday, November 8, 2017
Islamic scholars are finalizing work on a sharia standard for gold-based products set to become effective before the end of the year and possibly help kick-start a new wave of product development in Islamic finance.
Hugo Salinas Price: A reversal in the trend of international reserves
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2016-11-07 19:52 Section: Daily Dispatches7:53p ET Monday, November 7, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Chinese investors are in love with U.S. dollar debt
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2016-11-07 08:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Bloomberg News
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Terence Cheng, a fixed-income fund manager based in Hong Kong, has never gotten so many Chinese client inquiries for overseas dollar bonds. Their questions sent over WeChat, the popular Chinese instant-messaging service, even interrupted his beach vacation in Thailand.
Physical gold market keeps fighting the paper market, John Ing tells KWN
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2016-11-06 21:24 Section: Daily Dispatches9:26p ET Sunday, November 6, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Interviewed by King World News, Canadian fund manager John Ing says occasionally "paper gold" swamps the physical gold market "but amazingly the physical gold market seems to keep edging up and helping the longer-term upward trend of the gold price." Ing's comments are excerpted at KWN here:
GATA board member Ed Steer's Saturday market letter posted at GoldSeek
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2016-11-06 18:39 Section: Daily Dispatches6:41p ET Sunday, November 6, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Saturday's gold and silver market letter by GATA Board of Directors member Ed Steer is posted in the clear at GoldSeek here:
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1478448000.php
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
Russian bank aims to double its gold trade in three years
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-11-03 11:21 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Katya Golubkova
Reuters
Thursday, November 3, 2016
MOSCOW -- VTB Capital, the investment banking arm of Russia's second-biggest bank, plans to double its gold-trading volumes over the next three years from around 110-150 tonnes a year currently, Atanas Djumaliev, head of global commodities at the firm, told Reuters.
Fosun in exclusive talks to buy stake in Russian gold miner Polyus, Reuters says
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-11-03 10:49 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Julie Zhu and Polina Devitt
Reuters
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Fosun International Ltd, is in exclusive talks to buy a large minority stake in Russia's biggest gold miner, Polyus, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in what would be the Chinese group's maiden Russian deal.
Ronan Manly: Private-equity investors to acquire Swiss gold refiner Argor-Heraeus
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-11-03 10:10 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ronan Manly
BullionStar.com, Singapore
Thursday, November 3, 2016
The $100 billion gold mine and the West Papuans who say they count the cost
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2016-11-02 00:35 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Susan Schulman
The Guardian, London
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
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