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Gold miners will return to net hedging in 2014, GFMS says

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By Jan Harvey
Reuters
Friday, July 4, 2014

Gold producers will return to net hedging for the first time since 2011 this year, GFMS analysts at Thomson Reuters said on Friday, after Polyus Gold this week announced a two-year progamme to sell gold forward. ...

Central banks now rig all asset prices, Stockman says

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:18p ET Sunday, June 6, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Former U.S. Rep. and U.S. budget director David Stockman, interviewed by the Mises Institute about his new book, "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America," earns his tinfoil hat with a denunciation of the Federal Reserve.

France lashes out at dollar dominance in international transactions

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By Michael Stothard
Financial Times, London
Sunday, July 6, 2014

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/883e7912-0513-11e4-b098-00144feab7de.html

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France -- France's political and business establishment has hit out against the hegemony of the dollar in international transactions after US authorities fined BNP Paribas $9 billion for helping countries avoid sanctions.

London's scandal-hit gold price fixing under spotlight this week

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By Jessica Berthereau
Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Sunday, July 6, 2014

http://news.yahoo.com/londons-scandal-hit-gold-price-fixing-under-spotli...

LONDON -- London's century-old process for fixing gold prices, tainted by a rigging scandal and attacked by critics as old-fashioned, goes under the spotlight this week in key talks aimed at modernising the process.

Koos Jansen: China's half-year gold demand hits 947 tonnes

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:55a ET Sunday, July 6, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

No more market crashes -- and no more markets either

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11:47a ET Sunday, July 6, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Huge divergences in traditional economic relationships are showing up all over the place and evoking much comment and analysis.

Writing at King World News, Ronald-Peter Stoferle of Incrementum AG in Liechtenstein identifies some and suggests that they foretell a stock market crash:

Central bank talk moves currencies now, not commodity prices

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Commodities Obsolete in Models Yielding to Fed, ECB

By Cecile Gutscher
Bloomberg News
Friday, July 4, 2014

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-03/commodities-obsolete-in-models-...

Commodities are getting a demotion from foreign-exchange strategists.

Alasdair Macleod: A tale of two certainties

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9:26a ET Saturday, July 5, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

European exchange rate contest raises prospect of currency caps

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By Eshe Nelson
Bloomberg News
Friday, July 4, 2014

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-04/european-exchange-rate-contest-...

LONDON -- European Central Bank efforts to combat falling consumer prices are raising the prospect of retaliation through the currency markets as smaller neighbors grapple with their own deflationary risks.

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