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Robert Lambourne: BIS has nearly ended its gold swap business
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2022-08-09 16:26 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
According to its just-published statement of account for July, the Bank for International Settlements has nearly ended its gold swap business, which it has been operating since 2009.
The July statement --
Robert Lambourne: BIS gold swaps keep falling sharply, down 60% in six months
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2022-07-20 12:13 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements, the major gold broker for central banks, fell substantially again in June, this time by 68 tonnes, bringing the bank's total swaps down to 202 tonnes from the 501 tonnes on the bank's books in January, a decline of nearly 60% in six months.
The bank's June statement of account is posted here:
BIS annual report confirms GATA analysis of gold interventions, avoids Russia issue
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2022-06-26 23:27 Section: Documentation9:10a Monday, June 27, 2022
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In his latest report on the gold market interventions of the Bank for International Settlements, appended here, GATA consultant Robert Lambourne is far too modest. For the bank's annual report, published Sunday, confirms the accuracy of Lambourne's years of doing monthly calculations of the bank's gold market interventions -- its involvement in gold swaps, about which the bank has been almost completely secret.
Robert Lambourne: BIS gold swaps fell substantially again in May
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2022-06-14 12:12 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Another substantial reduction in the gold swaps of the Bank for International Settlements is indicated by the bank's statement of account for May:
Robert Lambourne: BIS gold swaps fall by a third in two months. Is 'Basel 3' kicking in?
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2022-05-21 11:57 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Saturday, May 21, 2022
The recently released March and April 2022 statements of account of the Bank for International Settlements —
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc220331.pdf
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc220430.pdf
— contain information suggesting a significant decrease in the bank's gold swaps.
Chris Powell: Russia conscripts gold into defense of the ruble
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2022-03-30 23:14 Section: DocumentationGold Market Manipulation Update
Remarks by Chris Powell
Secretary/Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Mining Investment Asia Conference
Intercontinental Hotel, Singapore
Thursday, March 31, 2022
In recent months gold market manipulation particularly and commodity futures market manipulation generally have been ever-more exciting fields of study.
Robert Lambourne: Small decline in BIS gold swaps in February
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2022-03-12 09:29 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Saturday, March 12, 2022
The recently released February 2022 statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements --
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc220228.pdf
-- contains information suggesting a decrease of about 29 tonnes in the bank's gold swaps, from 501 tonnes as at the end of January to 472 tonnes at the end of February.
Robert Lambourne: BIS gold swaps increased by 21% in January
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2022-02-11 22:26 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Friday, February 11, 2022
The recently released January 2022 statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements --
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc220131.pdf
-- contains information suggesting an increase of about 87 tonnes in the bank's gold swaps, from 414 tonnes in December to 501 tonnes in January, or 21%. This compares to the record 12-month high estimated at 552 tonnes at the end of February 2021
Pam and Russ Martens: NY Fed has second trading floor at Chicago futures markets
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2022-01-31 10:24 Section: DocumentationNo wonder the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission declines to answer, even for a member of Congress, whether the commission has jurisdiction over manipulative futures trading by or on behalf of the government or whether such manipulative trading is authorized by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, as amended:
Robert Lambourne: BIS gold swaps fell slightly in December; no hint of Basel III influence
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2022-01-09 13:47 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Sunday, January 9, 2022
The recently released December statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements --
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc211231.pdf
-- contains information suggesting a decrease of about 37 tonnes in the bank's gold swaps, from 451 tonnes in November to 414 tonnes in December.
This compares to the record high estimated at 552 tonnes as of February 25 this year.
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