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China's 500-tonne gold gap fuels talk of stockpiling
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2014-02-11 12:38 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Simon Rabinovitch
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/885b6272-92d4-11e3-9e43-00144feab7de.html
SHANGHAI -- A 500-tonne gap in China's gold consumption data is fuelling talk that the central bank took advantage of weak prices last year to bulk up its holdings of the precious metal.
TF Metals Report: Trends of the latest bank participation report
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2014-02-11 11:45 Section: Daily Dispatches11:40a ET Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The TF Metals Report's Turd Ferguson today analyzes the latest reports on trader positions in the gold futures market and concludes that gold likely is on its way back up, even as he advises patience. Ferguson's commentary is headlined "Trends of the Latest Bank Participation Report" and it's posted here:
Sprott praises GATA consultant Speck's 'The Gold Cartel'
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2014-02-10 16:22 Section: Daily Dispatches4:22p ET Monday, February 10, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
On the weekly market review by Sprott Money News, Sprott Asset Management's CEO Eric Sprott explains his optimism about gold and silver prices and praises GATA consultant Dimitri Speck's new book, "The Gold Cartel," for detailing the largely surreptitious manipulation of the gold market by central banks.
More debt can't engineer economic recovery, Embry tells KWN
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2014-02-10 13:30 Section: Daily Dispatches1:27p ET Monday, February 10, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold demand in China at record
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2014-02-10 08:11 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Feiwen Rong
Bloomberg News
Monday, February 10, 2014
BEIJING -- Gold consumption and production in China expanded to records as prices that slumped into a bear market spurred sales of jewelry and bars, underlining a shift in global demand from West to East.
Robert Fitzwilson: Gold manipulation continues but retreat may have begun
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2014-02-10 08:06 Section: Daily Dispatches8:04a ET Monday, February 10, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Market analyst Robert Fitzwilson tells King World News today that while the manipulation of the gold and silver markets is "alive and well," the manipulators seem to have begun another retreat with gold.
Bron Suchecki: How bullion banks work together to minimize their need for bullion
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2014-02-10 07:53 Section: Daily Dispatches7:45a ET Monday, February 10, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Venezuela has its gold, if not toilet paper, but what about Germany?
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2014-02-09 12:21 Section: Daily Dispatches12:34p ET Sunday, February 9, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Responding to suggestions last week from Germany's Bundesbank that it must repatriate its gold slowly from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for security reasons, possibly at a rate of no more than 1 tonne per week over six years --
Manipulation of Comex gold 'very visible,' Rickards tells Epoch Times
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2014-02-08 18:38 Section: Daily Dispatches6:37p ET Saturday, February 8, 2014
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Fund manager and author James G. Rickards tells The Epoch Times this week that "outright manipulation" is "very visible" in Comex gold futures prices.
Argentines drain reserves to stash dollars under mattresses
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2014-02-08 17:59 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Camila Russo and Charlie Devereux
Bloomberg News
Friday, February 8, 2014
Jorge Lischetti applied to purchase dollars from the government the day Argentina eased controls. He stashed the $300 he was allowed to buy in January in his Buenos Aires home and did the same on the first day of February.