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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
CME Group to start London gold contract in challenge to ICE, LME
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2016-11-01 14:28 Section: Daily DispatchesGovernments and central banks use CME Group exchanges for surreptitious trading of all major futures contracts in the United States:
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By Eddie Van Der Walt
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Three of Fed's own primary dealers see rate hikes on hold until 2017
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2016-10-31 21:29 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Yun Li
Bloomberg News
Monday, October 31, 2016
Three of the Federal Reserve's own primary dealers are warning bond traders that a growing consensus the central bank will raise interest rates by year-end is misguided.
Venezuelans give up on counting piles of cash and start weighing them
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2016-10-31 11:33 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Fabiola Zerpa and Andrew Rosati
Bloomberg News
Monday, October 31, 2016
At a delicatessen counter in eastern Caracas, Humberto Gonzalez removes slices of salty white cheese from his scale and replaces them with a stack of bolivar notes handed over by his customer. The currency is so devalued and each purchase requires so many bills that instead of counting, he weighs them.
World to face stress test as dollar LIBOR spikes and bond rout deepens
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2016-10-30 19:37 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Surging rates on dollar LIBOR contracts are rapidly tightening conditions across large parts of the global economy, incubating stress in the credit markets and ultimately threatening overvalued bourses.
China links gold market with Dubai
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2016-10-29 11:10 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Wu Yiyao
China Daily, Beijing
Saturday, October 29, 2016
SHANGHAI -- Shanghai Gold Exchange and Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange signed an agreement on Friday in Shanghai that makes the Dubai exchange the first foreign exchange to use the SGE's renminbi-denominated gold benchmark.
The SGE is in talks with other exchanges about similar cooperation, according to an SGE circular.
Dutch financial newspaper interviews gold researcher Koos Jansen
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2016-10-29 10:56 Section: Daily Dispatches9:57a CT Saturday, October 29, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldSeek Radio's Chris Waltzek interviews GATA Chairman Bill Murphy
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-10-28 14:45 Section: Daily Dispatches1:45p CT Friday, October 28, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Hathaway's Tocqueville gold letter gets pretty frank about market rigging
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-10-28 14:04 Section: Daily Dispatches1:05p CT Friday, October 28, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
John Hathaway's October gold strategy letter for the Tocqueville funds gets pretty frank about manipulation of the gold market by governments and central banks, quoting Zero Hedge and market analyst and financial letter writer Michael Belkin:
Egon von Greyerz: Except in dollars, gold is near the 2011 highs
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-10-27 13:43 Section: Daily Dispatches12:45p CT Thursday, October 27, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
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