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Lars Schall interviews GATA secretary for Gold Switzerland

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:32a ET Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In Munich this month your secretary/treasurer was interviewed by the German freelance financial journalist Lars Schall, who is, as far as GATA knows, the only financial writer on the planet who has ever put to central banks critical questions about their surreptitious activity in the gold market.

Koos Jansen: New York Fed's gold vault outflow hit 47 tonnes in November

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:10p ET Monday, December 29, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Forty-seven tonnes of gold left the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in November, apparently in connection with the gold repatriations of foreign governments, Bullion Star market analyst and GATA consultant Koos Jansen reports today:

Governments are dangerously leveraged as derivatives threaten, Ing tells KWN

Section: Daily Dispatches

3p ET Monday, December 29, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Governments, market analyst John Ing tells King World News today, have become even more leveraged than the private financial sector was in 2008, and the plunge in oil prices threatens a blowup in derivatives. An excerpt from Ing's interview is posted at the KWN blog here:

Ted Butler: MorganChase's cornering of silver is the perfect crime

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:14p ET Monday, December 29, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his new commentary, silver market rigging exposer Ted Butler details the evidence that the U.S. investment bank JPMorganChase has cornered the silver market and is controlling silver prices. Butler's commentary is headlined "The Perfect Crime" and is posted at GoldSeek's companion Internet site, SilverSeek, here --

Ditching US dollar, China and Russia launch financial tools in local currencies

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Russia Today, Moscow
Monday, December 29, 2014

China and Russia have effectively switched to domestic currencies in trading using financial tools such as swaps and forwards, as they seek to reduce the influence of the US dollar and foreign exchange risks.

China's net gold imports from Hong Kong hit 9-month high in November

Section: Daily Dispatches

By A. Ananthalakshmi
Reuters
Monday, December 29, 2014

China's gold imports from Hong Kong in November rose to their highest level since February, indicating strong demand in the world's top bullion consumer ahead of the Lunar New Year.

Gold terrifies world monetary system, Goldbroker's Ristori tells blogger Richter

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:19a ET Sunday, December 28, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Koos Jansen: Huge gold offtake continues on Shanghai exchange

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:53p ET Saturday, December 27, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Two-year Japanese government bonds sold at negative yield for first time

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Shinichi Saoshiro
Reuters
Thursday, December 25, 2014

TOKYO -- Japanese two-year government bonds were sold for the first time at negative yields today, underlining strong demand for the debt under the Bank of Japan's qualitative and quantitative easing policy, through which it buys large amounts of short-term debt. ...

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